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

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.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

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

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.

Since 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.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.