289 Quotes About Airlines

  • Author Michael Boyd
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    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.

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  • Author Michael Boyd
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    Today you have Southwest Airlines in a reactive mode opening up cities they probably would not have opened up.

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  • Author Michael Boyd
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    Airlines live on cash, and the minute you stop flying the bills keep coming in but the money doesn't,

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  • Author Michael Boyd
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    Airlines have already cut the services they can cut, now cuts will have to come from somewhere else. The food is already nonexistent.

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  • Author Nariman Behravesh
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    This is an economy where airlines are paying record prices for jet fuel, and yet it is very hard to pass through those costs.

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  • Author Nariman Behravesh
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    These high energy prices are beginning to spill over into the rest of the economy. Finally, airlines are able to raise ticket prices and hotels are able to raise room rates and on and on.

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  • Author Nariman Behravesh
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    The higher energy costs will put a squeeze on both businesses and households. They're spending so much on energy - the households on gasoline, the airlines on jet fuel, for example - that they'll have to curtail elsewhere.

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  • Author Paula Berg
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    We specifically flew a plane down for that purpose. We've been told that a couple of other airlines are doing it too.

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