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I mean, they get paid an awful lot of money. The only good
> thing about them
> is they can't work after they're 60. *- Judge
> Prudence Carter Beatty, New
> York Southern District Bankruptcy Court, regards Delta Air
> Lines pilots.
> Reported in The Wall Street Journal, 18 November 2005*
Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse
> than dope. *- Ed
> Acker, while Chairman of Air Florida*
>
> These days no one can make money in the ******* airline
> business. The
> economics represent sheer hell. *- C. R. Smith, President
> of American
> Airlines.*
>
> 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. *- Sir Adam Thomson*
>
> If the Wright brothers were alive today Wilbur would have
> to fire Orville to
> reduce costs. *- Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines,
> 'USA Today,' 8 June
> 1994.*
>
> This is a nasty, rotten business. *- Robert L. Crandall,
> CEO & President of
> American Airlines.*
>
> The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose
> my luggage. *-
> President George Bush Sr.*
>
> You ****ing academic eggheads! You don't know ****. You
> can't deregulate
> this industry. You're going to wreck it. You don't
> know a ******* thing! *-
> Robert L. Crandall, CEO American Airlines, addressing a
> Senate lawyer prior
> to airline deregulation, 1977.*
>
> No one expects Braniff to go broke. No major U.S. carrier
> ever has. *- The
> Wall Street Journal, 30 July 1980.*
>
> If we went into the funeral business, people would stop
> dying. *- Martin R.
> Shugrue, Vice-chairman Pan Am.*
>
> Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. We
> have a small
> problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our
> damnedest to get
> them going again. I trust you are not in too much
> distress. *- Captain Eric
> Moody, British Airways, passenger PA after flying through
> volcanic ash in a
> B-747.*
>
> The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years
> is to say, "It's
> all labor's fault." - *Donald Carty, Chairman
> and CEO American
> Airlines, 12 August 2002.*
>
> If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in
> port. They believe
> the assertion that the world is flat. *- Robert L.
> Crandall, 1993.*
>
> That place runs on Herb Kelleher's bull****. *- Robert
> W. Baker, VP American
> Airlines, regards Southwest Airlines.*
>
> There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an
> airplane: Either you
> have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
> *- Henry Kissinger*
>
> There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
> *- Orson Welles,
> interview to celebrate his 70th birthday, 'The
> Times,' 6 May 1985.*
>
> To me, an airplane is a great place to diet. -* Wolfgang
> Puck*
>
> Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like
> your passport photo.
> *- Vice President Albert Gore.*
>
> thing about them
> is they can't work after they're 60. *- Judge
> Prudence Carter Beatty, New
> York Southern District Bankruptcy Court, regards Delta Air
> Lines pilots.
> Reported in The Wall Street Journal, 18 November 2005*
Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse
> than dope. *- Ed
> Acker, while Chairman of Air Florida*
>
> These days no one can make money in the ******* airline
> business. The
> economics represent sheer hell. *- C. R. Smith, President
> of American
> Airlines.*
>
> 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. *- Sir Adam Thomson*
>
> If the Wright brothers were alive today Wilbur would have
> to fire Orville to
> reduce costs. *- Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines,
> 'USA Today,' 8 June
> 1994.*
>
> This is a nasty, rotten business. *- Robert L. Crandall,
> CEO & President of
> American Airlines.*
>
> The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose
> my luggage. *-
> President George Bush Sr.*
>
> You ****ing academic eggheads! You don't know ****. You
> can't deregulate
> this industry. You're going to wreck it. You don't
> know a ******* thing! *-
> Robert L. Crandall, CEO American Airlines, addressing a
> Senate lawyer prior
> to airline deregulation, 1977.*
>
> No one expects Braniff to go broke. No major U.S. carrier
> ever has. *- The
> Wall Street Journal, 30 July 1980.*
>
> If we went into the funeral business, people would stop
> dying. *- Martin R.
> Shugrue, Vice-chairman Pan Am.*
>
> Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. We
> have a small
> problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our
> damnedest to get
> them going again. I trust you are not in too much
> distress. *- Captain Eric
> Moody, British Airways, passenger PA after flying through
> volcanic ash in a
> B-747.*
>
> The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years
> is to say, "It's
> all labor's fault." - *Donald Carty, Chairman
> and CEO American
> Airlines, 12 August 2002.*
>
> If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in
> port. They believe
> the assertion that the world is flat. *- Robert L.
> Crandall, 1993.*
>
> That place runs on Herb Kelleher's bull****. *- Robert
> W. Baker, VP American
> Airlines, regards Southwest Airlines.*
>
> There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an
> airplane: Either you
> have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
> *- Henry Kissinger*
>
> There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
> *- Orson Welles,
> interview to celebrate his 70th birthday, 'The
> Times,' 6 May 1985.*
>
> To me, an airplane is a great place to diet. -* Wolfgang
> Puck*
>
> Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like
> your passport photo.
> *- Vice President Albert Gore.*
>
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