68 Quotes by Michael Boyd

The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.

We're going to have a nasty showdown among low-fare carriers.

United filed for Chapter 11 and they're selling all their product. Chapter 11 is just a change in legal proceedings.

United comes out of Chapter 11 with no significant advantages over its major competitors.

If the situation runs smoothly for the next three or four days, there may be no incentive for the company to end the strike. If it doesn't run smoothly, they might be back at the table at some point.

I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.

but there ain't a lot of folks who'll drop what they're doing to take advantage of a cheap fare in such a market.

But either way, it's going to be ugly.

Frontier Airlines is already losing money. JetBlue and AirTran are on the edge, and Southwest, had it not hedged fuel, would be losing money. Anything with a wing has problems with today's fuel prices. But if oil had stayed where it was a year ago, like we thought it would, we'd be talking today about how profitable the airlines are today.