Top 201 Airline Quotes & Sayings

PAL continues to be the country's leading airline and significant promoter of Philippine tourism.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, but we're really very conservative from the fiscal standpoint.

Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline - it's been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

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.'

Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.

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.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.

If I want to travel with my family I have to purchase 7 airline tickets.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Jet Blue is my preferred airline. I love the cleanliness, technology, and the staff is always wonderful.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

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

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

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

Well, one of the myths early on that I think is one of the funnier things we've done is airline toilet seats. That one was about a large woman that sat down on a seat in an airline and flushed the toilet and got stuck on it.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

At United, I will dedicate myself to making our airline flyer-friendly.

Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

I'm not opposed to talking about airline food.

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.