The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years.

When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

You must always be faster and better than the others.

I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.