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Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles? -- Jason Biggs
Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized. -- Tony Fernandes
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them. -- Phil Donahue
United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either. -- David Letterman
Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates. -- Doug Larson
When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. -- Phil Collins
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air." -- Herb Kelleher
I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in. -- Margaret Smith
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air. -- Herb Kelleher
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. -- Elton Joe Kendall
The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy. -- 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
I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground. -- Herb Kelleher
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
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew. -- Herb Kelleher
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense. -- Tom Douglas
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
Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue. -- John Mackey
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines -- John Mulaney
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
Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago. -- Jimmy Fallon
We focused on getting popchips into the hands of tastemakers and influencers wherever they were, from the fashionistas at Mercedes Benz fashion week to the passengers on Virgin Airlines. -- Keith Belling
There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?' -- Buzz Aldrin
Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage?A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not. -- Mitt Romney
New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see American Airlines saying, "We land our jets on the runway"! -- Bill Maher
When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened. -- Henry Rollins
The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain. -- Philip Yancey
United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit. -- Shaun White
If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines. -- Gail Collins
On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology. -- Dennis Miller
I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window. -- Robert Schimmel
Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines. -- Bill Maher
The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them. -- Tony Fernandes
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
Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
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
I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane. -- Gordon Bethune
There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can't build it back up overnight. -- Gordon Bethune
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. -- Timothy Noah
In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. -- Anthony Bourdain
First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing. -- Gerard Arpey
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations. -- Anthony Albanese
I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.' -- Tony Fernandes
When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance. -- Gabe Newell
A lot of airlines have come and gone. -- David Neeleman
The Asian airlines have the best wine programs. -- Alain Ducasse
The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying. -- Kelly Preston
Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency. -- Bill Vaughan
I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them. -- Chris Hadfield
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. -- Henry Tillman
I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now. -- Lee Ritenour
The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring. -- Iliza Shlesinger
The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government. -- C. R. Smith
I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though. -- Mickey Gilley
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. -- Bill Bryson
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. -- Muriel Spark
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
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. -- Peter Diamandis
Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges -- Giovanni Bisignani
The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today? -- Gina Lollobrigida
Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen. -- Ellen DeGeneres
A lot of faith is placed upon the airline itself. The FAA has never and will never have enough resources to completely monitor the airlines. -- Wayne Williams
You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere. -- Charlotte Church
I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on? -- George Carlin
The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable. -- Verne Lundquist
Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days. -- Andy Rooney
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints these stocks. In the emerging world, they're growth stocks. -- Kenneth Fisher
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars. -- Mike Batt
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with. -- Dave Barry
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet). -- Mary Schiavo
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently. -- Richard L. Hanna

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