GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
FRANK LORENZO

Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

Don Burr

Founder of People Express airlines, the first nationally successful ultra low-cost carrier in the US. Regards Frank Lorenzo. Quoted in the 1995 book Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos. In 1987 People Express was bought by Texas Air, owned by Frank Lorenzo.



See three other Don Burr great aviation quotes.

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

William F. Buckley

Quoted in Aviation and the Role of Government, 2004.

I can’t imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

Frank Lorenzo

CEO Eastern Airlines, Reported in Newsweek magazine, volume 107, 1986. Eastern Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991.

From this day forward, you must assume that Eastern Airlines intends to force a strike, and you must be prepared for the worst.

Charlie Bryan

Eastern Airlines Machinists union leader. Bulletin to his members, 1987. Quoted in 1999 book Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines.

I’m not paid to be a candy ass. I’m paid to go and get a job done. I could have ended up with another job, but the job I ended up with was piecing together a bunch of companies that were all headed for the junk heap … I’ve got to be the bastard who sits around Eastern Airlines and says, ‘hey, we’re losing $3 million a day or whatever the number is and bang, bang, bang, bang, what do you do?’ So, some jobs are easier than others.

Frank Lorenzo

Quoted in Grounded: and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines, 1990.