GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Delta

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Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.

C. E. Woolman

Principal founder Delta Air Lines. Cited by the Delta Flight Museum..

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Aviation is the youngest big industry, but it is the fastest growing baby ever. A few years ago, it was called impossible to fly … The day of the airplane is surely here.

C. E. Woolman

Principal founder Delta Air Lines, shortly before Delta Air Services’s first day of passenger flying, 17 April 1929. Cited by the Delta Flight Museum..



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Airplanes are more or less standard. Fares are uniform. Competitive services are often available. The quality of Delta's service, the attitude of its people, will determine who gets the business.

C. E. Woolman

Principal founder Delta Air Lines. August 1946. Cited by the Delta Flight Museum..

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I think it’s dumb as hell, for Christ’s sake all right, to sit here and pound the shit out of each other and neither one of us making a fucking dime.

Well —

I mean, goddamn! What the fuck is the point of it?

Nobody asked American to serve Harlingen. Nobody asked American to serve Kansas City… If you’re going to overlay every route of American’s on top of every route that Braniff has, I can't just sit here and allow you to bury us without giving you our best effort.

Oh sure, but Eastern and Delta do the same thing in Atlanta and have for years.

Do you have a suggestion for me?

Yes, I have a suggestion for you. Raise your goddamn fares twenty percent. I’ll raise mine the next morning. you’ll make more money and I will too.

Robert, we can’t talk about pricing.

Oh, bullshit, Howard. We can talk about any goddamn thing we want to talk about.

Robert 'Bob' Crandall and Howard Putnam

Telephone conversation on or about 21 February 1982. From United States v. American Airlines Inc. and Robert L. Crandall, U.S. District Court, CA383-0325D.

We love to fly. And it it shows.

Delta Air Lines advertising slogan

Replaced with ‘You’ll love the way we fly’ in January 1995.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

Robert Priddy

CEO ValuJet, 1996.

I mean, they get paid an awful lot of money. The only good thing about them is they can’t work after they’re 60.

Judge Prudence Carter Beatty

New York Southern District Bankruptcy Court, regards Delta Air Lines pilots. Reported in The Wall Street Journal, 18 November 2005. The retirement age for U.S. airline pilots was later moved up to 65.

Investing in success is not a crime; blocking competition would be. The dark clouds of protectionism are gathering over Europe and the United States.

James Hogan

CEO Etihad Airways, regards complaints of unfair business tactics by American Airlines, Delta, United, Air France and Lufthansa. Industry speech, Aviation Club, London, 27 March 2015.

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