Passengers Quotes

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"We were approaching Madrid airport on an Iberia flight from Barcelona when our tour manager, who was sitting next to me, grabbed hold of my left leg. I said, `Fuck off Ian,` but he wouldn`t let go so I hit him. I then looked at the other passengers and noticed they had the same look of complete panic on their faces as he did. I asked him what was wrong and he said, `We nearly died.` Apparently, the plane had approached the runway almost on its side with the left wing no more than six feet off the ground. Just before impact, the pilot had managed to right the plane so avoiding disaster and probably our death. For the rest of the day, everyone got completely drunk and told all and sundry how much they loved them. I felt strangely distant as I had not shared the experience."

- Damon Albarn

Without infringing on their rights, Southwest is making some type of check as the passengers leave.

- Roger Smith

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

- Richard Branson

We want to help them get the word out that they converted from the Otter to the Beechcraft, ... We want people to experience the aircraft and hopefully the word of mouth will translate into more passengers.

- Danny Roberts

The guest gets at least as much service with us as with some established airline, if not even more. And at by far a favourable price. Thus the passengers remain gladly with us.

- Niki Lauda

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

- Niki Lauda

As marine workers, our first and foremost concern is with the passengers we service. We`re committed to improved safety to ensure no family faces such a tragedy again.

- Jackie Miller

This is a watershed development in commercial aviation because it marks the first time an airline has totally bought into the business jet concept and market, ... Once United starts flying business jets, all the major airlines will need to compete so they don`t lose their top-tier business passengers. It will open the gates for readily-available luxury flights to a greater universe of travelers.

- Michael Miller

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

- Larry Black

That means an aircraft operators use of air traffic control resources determines the amount owed to the FAA, whether the aircraft is carrying three or thirty or three-hundred passengers.

- Jim May

Instead of driving in circles or parking illegally, our customers can relax, read or make phone calls while waiting. When passengers are ready for pick up, it`s just a two-minute drive to baggage claim.

- Michael Stewart

(He`d better be, because the new space race already is under way and competition is shaping up as fierce. Rutan`s chief rival may ultimately be Elon Musk. A former Internet mogul who in 2002 sold his online payment company, PayPal, to eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, Musk now runs SpaceX in El Segundo, Calif., which is developing an orbital space vehicle. Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne. Musk has already put more than $50 million into SpaceX and says he is prepared to invest $50 million more. He expects it to take at least five years to get passengers into orbit. In the meantime, SpaceX is generating revenue by booking orders to launch satellites; its first such launch is scheduled for January.) Our earned revenue will be $35 million after a little more than two years of operation, ... By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of $10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.

- Elon Musk

the recent high profile of bad behavior among passengers has meant that no airline is prepared to accept this sort of behavior.

- David Parsons

London Buses must put passengers` safety first. The number of complaints is up as is passenger dissatisfaction.

- Roger Evans

The Twilight Zone` wasn`t around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

- Christa McAuliffe

Because of the difficult weather conditions and because of the volume of people Hartsfield serves, we are taking measures to help prevent stranded passengers.

- Dan Lewis

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it`s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it`s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

- Ahmed Bedier

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

- Alaa Hosni

I believe the public`s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

- Alan Seay

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

- Andrew Fellows

We did everything we could to help our passengers following the delay caused by this situation.

- Andy Southerland

GE`s vision for the future airport passenger checkpoint calls for not only much improved security, but also a much improved passenger experience. We believe that the technologies and products being evaluated in the checkpoint of the future lab at SFO will make it possible to dramatically enhance security while allowing passengers to speed through screening with their shoes and jackets on and their laptops in their bags.

- Angela Leisure

She is still going strong today and continues to drive herself and any passengers who care to come along, ... In all that time and mileage, she has been involved in only one at-fault accident. As I imagine you`ve already surmised, she pulled out in front a vehicle that had a turn signal flashing. Bang!

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.

- Armando Olivera

We`re going to see a variety of passengers. There will certainly be corporate consumers, there will also be people going there for tourism.

- Azyumardi Azra

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

- Will Shriner