Bret Easton Ellis 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.

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.

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.

Local airports serve an important role as economic and public safety assets for communities across the state.

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

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.

I probably fly twice a week, within Canada and the States.

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

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.

A great universal highway in the sky … soon to be opened.

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

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

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

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.

As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

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

From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air

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

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.

Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.