Carriers Quotes

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It`s going to be hard for carriers to stick with a system that punishes consumers. Consumers just won`t accept that.

- Adam Goldberg

(Better terms. Contracts with steep termination fees are another barrier to dumping a carrier. Carriers could initially roll out longer contracts with higher termination fees, but may compete over the long run by offering fewer binding contracts.) It`s going to be hard for carriers to stick with a system that punishes consumers, ... Consumers just won`t accept that.

- Adam Goldberg

The airlines really focused on creating a business model where the front of the plane paid for the back of the plane. It certainly allowed the (big) carriers to make more profit in the 1990s than they had before, but it invited the competition to come in.

- Michael Allen

Our carriers are doing extremely well, better than in years past. We attribute that to the fact that ... we inspect based on criteria developed with the (bus) industry.

- Peter Graves

This legislation would act as a disincentive for insurers to innovate and create new insurance programs. In addition this bill could hurt small carriers in the market. There are over 200 insurers that write property and casualty insurance in Colorado and the vast majority of them are smaller companies. These restrictions to use only Colorado data could make it difficult for them to price their product competitively in our state.

- Kelly Campbell

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

- Niki Lauda

At the same time, carriers are unsure how difficult it is going to be to obtain reinsurance, and how much they will have to pay.

- Bill Bailey

The carriers are the biggest problem. They`ve been extremely slow in getting people online, and we`re somewhat unsure if the medications we`re giving out will even be covered.

- David Burke

This summer has been consistently good. I think all our carriers are experiencing increases.

- Mary Smith

(Last month, 155,160 people flew out of Tulsa International Airport, which bested the July 2004 figures that showed 139,979 took flights out of the airport. Airport officials attribute the 10.85 percent increase to additional flights from Tulsa to Denver and families taking summer vacations before school starts.) This summer has been consistently good, ... I think all our carriers are experiencing increases.

- Mary Smith

AOL owes its strong position in the mobile domain to its ability to provide seamless access to AIM buddy lists on handsets through an elegantly designed service and its strong relationships with mobile carriers. Its challenge is to demonstrate that it can use AIM as the foundation to engage users with a broader base of services, much as it is seeking to do on the desktop by opening access to its portal and e-mail services and linking these with AIM.

- Mark Donovan

Among the U.S. carriers, Sprint has been the most aggressive in trying to become a media and entertainment player, and they`re leading the pack.

- Mark Donovan

Their challenge is radio technology. When Ensemble went out of business, their equipment supply dried up. Having most of the European vendors supplying A-band equipment to carriers overseas has proven to be a real value in helping to make our situation what it is today.

- John Grady

(Okay, turning your prospects` cell phones into ringing spam machines is probably not your idea of cultivating goodwill. And it`s not likely to happen. Unlike e-mail, mobile phones aren`t readily accessible to marketers -- mobile phone privacy is zealously guarded by big carriers like Verizon and Nextel, as well as by law. There`s an opening, however, and smart advertisers are preparing to drive a truck through it. Provided a consumer clearly opts in -- say, by dialing or text-messaging a certain number -- carriers are slowly becoming more or less amenable to letting marketers return a text message, or even an audio or video file, to that consumer`s phone. Mobile phone ads are already big in some parts of Europe and Asia, and it`s just starting to take hold here. McDonald`s and Dunkin` Donuts are among the companies that have beamed coupons to U.S. cell phones, eliciting coupon-redemption rates as high as 17%.) Mobile-phone marketing today is where Internet advertising was in 1996 -- it`s about to take off, ... There are already more mobile phones in use worldwide than televisions and computers put together.

- Michael Baker

It was very fortunate that our three Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers - Enterprise, Saratoga and Lexington - missed the Pearl Harbor attack.

- Jack Adams

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

- Jack Adams

For a small carrier, the thing that might be good with rate regulation is that it prevents larger carriers from undercutting and provides us a way to remain competitive in the marketplace. A lot of carriers don`t like it because it`s an inconvenience and costly, but if you look at it from a consumer`s standpoint we have to be able to justify our rates to our consumers and that`s the bottom line.

- Howard Lee

Everything is on the table, including the continued independence for these three carriers, but in my opinion, that`s not likely, ... There`s an old saying that you have to break eggs to make omelet. The industry is looking for a new financial equilibrium. If you try to stay independent, in the near term you won`t gum up earnings, but long term, I think it`s an untenable situation.

- Kevin Murphy

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

- Henry David Thoreau

If people didn`t understand the plight that legacy carriers were in, they will now,

- Tom Price

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

- Alan Seay

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

- Alexander Utochkin

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

- Andre Bauer

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother`s home.

- Andrea Peiro

The driver market is the tightest it has been in 20 years. It`s a major limitation to the amount of freight that motor carriers can haul. It`s critical that we find ways to tap a new labor pool, increase wages and recruit new people into the industry that keeps our national economy moving.

- Anne Lamott

The U.S. trucking industry, which moves 70 percent of domestic freight, is on schedule to pay $6.6 billion more for fuel this year than last -- a total of $94.3 billion, so the actions announced by the White House have the support of our motor carriers.

- Anne Lamott

In any given market segment there will be at least three carriers who will be roughly equivalent on price. So even though price is important, it`s not the exclusive driver of the decision. Claim services and purchase convenience are other possible factors that could relate to an online presence.

- Anthony Fasano

The combining of our respective customers will allow us to significantly accelerate adoption of a common platform for carriers and their distributors to collaborate and exchange data. The value of this network will grow quickly as more companies and distributors flock to join it.

- Anthony Prior

What it means is there is less fuel essentially. Carriers are having to take measures to conserve fuel at airports where they are low and tanker in fuel when serving some destinations on the East Coast.

- Ariosto

At the moment, it only makes sense for us to develop bilateral relationships with carriers of countries we fly to, and that`s we will continue to do.

- Arlene S. Hall

We`ll work with air carriers to ensure they maintain good surveillance of the mechanics who work for them.

- Ashish Mohindroo

I ask carriers: `How well do I handle detention issues? Rate me on detention.` Once you start talking about these topics, carriers realize that you`re not hiding from the issues.

- Avi Isacharoff

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

- Barbara W. Tuchman