Dennis Muilenburg Quotes

There are sound economic reasons for believing that a great epoch of air transportation is being born. A new industrial and commercial era is beginning with the airplane just as surely as new areas began with steamships, railroads, and automobiles…. It is truly the Age of the Air.

I think it's inevitable that aviation is a part of the economic growth that surrounds airports.

As a global carrier, we always have a positive view on investment in infrastructure that supports our industry.

The need for air transport is real, and it's not going to change. The key is to have the right business model and have the right initiatives, in my view, to succeed.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

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.

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

In the Space Age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours—one hour for flying, and one hour to get to the airport.

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

Sky Harbor may be a city airport, but it's an Arizona vital resource used by citizens all over the state, and our economy is dependent on its success.

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.

One of the constraints on the U.S. business is the pilot shortage. There's not an abundance of pilots. There may be an abundance of cheap fuel and airplanes. There probably isn't an abundance of gates at popular airports, either.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

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

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

I travel on 150 flights a year; I am everywhere.

Flights' grew out of a time when I was travelling a lot.

Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.

There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there and grade papers on the floor.