These airline quotes will inspire you. Airline is an organization providing a regular public service of air transport on one or more routes.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging airline quotes, airline sayings, and airline proverbs.
Best Airline Quotes
- “Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop onboard I would fly that airline all the time.” ~ Lara St. John
- “A lot of airlines have come and gone.” ~ David Neeleman
- “Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.” ~ Collett E. Woolman
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“Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger, the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.” ~ Niki Lauda
- “The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “If the employees come first, then they’re happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It’s not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.” ~ Herb Kelleher
- “Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it’s a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.” ~ Harvey Mackay
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“We have a strategic plan. It’s called ‘doing things’.” ~ Herb Kelleher
- “This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.” ~ Gerard Arpey
- “One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.” ~ James Brady
- “If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” ~ Richard Branson
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“Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.” ~ Niki Lauda
- “So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.” ~ Richard Branson
- “At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three-quarters of a century. And I’m pretty sure we’re just getting started.” ~ Gerard Arpey
- “Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won’t be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y’know.” ~ Kerry King
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“I don’t visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won’t wait in the yard while I run in.” ~ Margaret Smith
- “Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.” ~ Nick Rahall
- “The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.” ~ Niki Lauda
- “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” ~ Frank Zappa
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“When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty – one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.” ~ Sandra Day O’Connor
- “I’ve produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they’ve all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.” ~ Willard Scott , Airline quotes pilots
- “Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?” ~ Fay Wray
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“In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.” ~ W. Richard Stevens
- “The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.” ~ Billy Joel
- “If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.” ~ Herb Kelleher
- “This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.” ~ Joe Biden
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“To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.” ~ Wolfgang Puck
- “I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.” ~ Ron Reagan
- “I don’t enjoy traveling in America. I don’t like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.” ~ Carla Bley
- “Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means… airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.” ~ Cecil Beaton
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“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer.” ~ Frank Zappa
- “These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.” ~ C. R. Smith
- “A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you’ve lost your trousers – you’re in the airline business.” ~ Adam Thomson
- “I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.” ~ Jean Kerr
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“I’ve said many times that I’d be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we’ll take all the money, anyway.” ~ Robert Crandall
- “You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?” ~ Dave Barry
- “The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars, and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.” ~ Michael O’Leary , Airline quotes industry
- “Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It’s intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as “mineral” and “linoleum.”” ~ Dave Barry
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“The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.” ~ C. R. Smith
- “As of 1992, in fact-though, the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country’s airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “Once you get hooked on the airline business, it’s worse than dope.” ~ Ed Acker
- “The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, “It’s all labor’s fault.”” ~ Donald J. Carty
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“If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.” ~ Keith Henson
- “Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.” ~ Phil Donahue
- “The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.” ~ Mark Russell
- “Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.” ~ Wim Wenders
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“So I’ve seen life as one long learning process.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you’re making airline reservations.” ~ Mackenzie Astin
- “I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn’t have a lot of money in them, though.” ~ Mickey Gilley
- “The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.” ~ Kelly Preston
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“We’ve got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it’s not surprising airline stocks are going up.” ~ Andrew Sullivan
- “Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.” ~ Michael O’Leary
- “The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you’re all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.” ~ Gordon Bethune
- “Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn’t have customer service. They had might, but they didn’t have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.” ~ Richard Branson
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“I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.” ~ George S. Kaufman
- “Here’s a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it’s a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It’s a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] “Look, they nearly missed!” “Yes, but not quite.” ~ George Carlin
- “This is a nasty, rotten business.” ~ Robert Crandall
- “The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of ‘Christians and lions.'” ~ Robert Crandall
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“You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.” ~ Inglis M. Uppercu
- “I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.” ~ Richard Branson
- “It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.” ~ C. R. Smith
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“I don’t mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.” ~ Naomi Campbell
- “This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.” ~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou
- “Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it’s immensely complex. And so you can’t write a program that’s any simpler than that full specification.” ~ Bill Gates
The airline is a business that operates regular services for carrying passengers or goods by plane.
