We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

We're a stupid industry led by stupid people.

I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?