Timothy Griffin 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.

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

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

People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.

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.

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.

The air transportation system consists of three components: Airports, Air Traffic Control, and airlines. The three work together like a dysfunctional family.

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

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.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

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

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

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.

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

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.

Creating a new air traffic control regulator outside of the FAA would be a risky and expensive undertaking, the consequences and costs of which would be borne by American taxpayers and the traveling public.

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

I had opposed the Jet-Etihad FDI arrangement on the ground of the disproportionate share of airspace given to Etihad, which is against the interest of domestic passenger traffic and also against national interest.

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.