We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.
Gordon BethuneI was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.
Gordon BethuneIn airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.
Gordon BethuneIt's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
Gordon BethuneSince 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.
Gordon Bethune