In 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.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

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?

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.

Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the best part of my day.