Top 271 Southwest Airlines Quotes & Sayings

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.

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.

Airlines are very competitive.

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.

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.

I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.

I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Flying commercial airlines has become an all-too-often unpleasant experience.

I had always wanted to come to South by Southwest. It's really fun.

I've been asked a number of times what was my proudest accomplishment when I was still very active in the day-to-day affairs of Southwest Airlines. I always said job security for our people.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

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.

A lot of airlines have come and gone.

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.

The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.

United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either.

Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.

I'm not a big fan of Russian airlines where you can tell the plane is about 50 years old.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.

That's why I like the Steinberger guitars. They're easy to travel with... and they don't get messed up by the airlines.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't get off the ground.

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

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.

I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

I am from Brookhaven, a small town in Southwest Mississippi.

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

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?'

Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

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.

There's no anger in my act towards anyone other than myself... and maybe airlines.