Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.