46 Quotes by Giovanni Bisignani

February, traditionally the slowest month for international traffic, brought both good news and solid growth. The recovery in freight has stretched to three months with growth of over 5 percent resulting from strength in international trade.

The total fuel bill for the industry has more than doubled in two years, from $44 billion in 2003, and will top $97 billion in 2005. With a total industry turnover in the range of $400 billion a year, jet fuel will make up 25 percent of our total costs.

The story for January was freight which is starting to show a definite strengthening trend following the disappointing 3.2% growth of 2005. This is the first time in a year we have seen two consecutive months of freight traffic growth above 5% which points to a resurgent world economy.

The target date is a must. Every year, we are printing roughly 350 million tickets. We will not print any more paper tickets by 2007.

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this process,

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability, ... Each dollar added to the price of a barrel adds $US1 billion in costs to the industry.

Oil is now destroying our profitability. We are in an emergency mode.

This is the first time in a year we have seen two consecutive months of freight traffic growth above 5% which points to a resurgent world economy.

It's not revolutionary technology, it's not something that we have to invent, it's existing technology.