Passengers Quotations

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.

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

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

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.

I know easyJet is not luxury, but we certainly don't charge for wheelchairs or take away essentials. You have to make the passengers reasonably comfy for the sake of health.

We focused on getting popchips into the hands of tastemakers and influencers wherever they were, from the fashionistas at Mercedes Benz fashion week to the passengers on Virgin Airlines.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

We are prepared to charter additional aircraft and rebook passengers on other airlines. For the moment we will continue to operate normally and take bookings on future flights,

We're interviewing passengers and are not saying anything more until we're sure what happened.

We believe that because we were able to continue some service, the impact won't be as great as if all the service had been shut down. We'll soon get all our passengers back.

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

We would rather cancel early rather than wait and have passengers trapped at the airport.

We're getting literally hundreds of calls about passengers frustrated with flight delays and taking it out on the flight attendants. We've asked the attendants to document each situation and forward onto our safety and health committee to investigate.

We're hoping to be able to offset the price of fuel ... by having more passengers ride ... instead of having to raise fares,

We know he isn't a transit-friendly, labor friendly governor. I hope he hears the public and passengers out there. We will continue to ask him.

Vehicles with open boxes are designed for carrying cargo, not people, ... Passengers should be riding inside the vehicle and should be properly secured with seatbelts and safety restraints.

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

We are hopeful passengers are reasonable and understand this a law that needs to be enforced. We definitely expect some trials and tribulations.

We did not have 10,000 passengers fly out of our airport last year. So we will only get $100,000 this (fiscal) year, not $1 million.

The extent to which the disruption is being felt by passengers is minimal at this point because there's been enough taxis from outside operators making pickups.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

What we decided to do was to take the ship into New York a day early and miss two ports to get an extra day in of sanitation and disinfecting the ship with no passengers on board. We wanted passengers off the ship so we could really make sure the cycle was broken.

When you consider the number of passengers on board these ships that run into the millions, cruising has never been safer than it is right now. Sixty percent of our business is cruise business.

The plane had finished taxiing and passengers were preparing to deplane when the passenger opened a right catering door and jumped out of the plane.

Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you get off someone else can get on.

Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.

Many of the rescued passengers were wearing life vests ... It is most likely the ship sank after being slammed by very strong waves due to bad weather.

Security personnel confiscated the envelope for investigation while passengers and luggage were searched, resulting in a three-hour delay in take-off.

So I'm expecting the officer to come to my window, but a blaring light comes on and he starts blaring orders over a P.A. system for all the passengers in the car to get out with their hands in the air,

Some civic do-gooder types might rattle cages because they see cities becoming one more Disney World of commercialism. But I think most passengers get used to it.

Some of civic do-gooder types might rattle cages because they see cities becoming one more Disneyworld of commercialism, ... But I think most passengers get used to it.

Since 1992, when Kiwi was formed, we've flown 8 million passengers safely without incident. We'll put our safety record up against anyone's.

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!

Most passengers were asleep when the accident took place. I was also asleep on my seat. Suddenly I heard a loud thud and I fell down from my seat. I was unconscious and later, when I regained consciousness, I was in the hospital bed.

Most passengers feel like once they make a connection to this cruise line, they're all protected.

Mr. Shaw drove his team gingerly across the new bridge, ... Once across, he quickly found a spot to turn around, then with a slap of the reins and a flick of the whip he sent the team back across at full trot while the passengers cheered loudly expressing their hearty approval.

Nobody wants to lose bus service. We understand their concern. We just hope they understand our concern for the safety of our passengers and drivers.

People were standing around and photographing that, and photographing it fairly closely. There was cheering from the passengers on the boat and there were people shouting directions as to what things they wanted to see.

I would be surprised to see any airlines go under before New Year's, but holiday schedule disruptions could be problematic, ... When flights are already fully booked at the holidays, it can be difficult or impossible to accommodate passengers if a flight is canceled. If the airline decides to reduce its frequency of service on the route, a refund is small consolation.

If we had to go more south, on more traditional routes, we would not be able to carry all the passengers we carry, and we wouldn't carry all the cargo.

If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to make hundreds of compromises with security. It's only a question of how many compromises.

If there were, theoretically, a lot of high obstacles nearby, we would have to reduce the weight of our airplanes in hot weather. We'd reduce fuel (and) cargo first, and try to do passengers last. But it would affect our operations.

If they should get into an accident, your insurance will protect you. It will be primary. If the other person also has insurance, their insurance is going to be secondary. So in the event there is bad accident and driver or passengers of the other car sue you, it is your own insurance that will be used first and then the driver's will be used second.

I am convinced, ... that if we get larger and larger ships in the industry, it will actually filter off a lot of passengers into the niche market ships of 100 to 200 passengers in the years to come.

Cathay Pacific was repeatedly singled out for the high quality and consistency of its front-line staff, in both the airport environment and onboard flights, ... Cathay certainly seems to have achieved its motto of 'service straight from the heart' and wowed passengers accordingly.

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

From Los Angeles to Singapore, passengers are saving two and a half hours. And to New York passengers are saving up to four hours in flying time.

If a company bids enough, it can exclude all other competitors, leaving airlines with only one possible supplier and passengers with no choice. Experience shows that if a company has the chance to buy a monopoly license, it will pay a premium for it. That is because it allows them, with one fell swoop, to ensure that competitors will not be able to keep prices down or force them to innovate.

I experienced the effect firsthand on my return flight from London to Hong Kong last weekend. There were three passengers in my cabin -- a 10 percent occupancy rate at best. Hong Kong's restaurants are mostly empty. It is difficult to enjoy a meal with masked waiters tiptoeing around in silence. If you want to frighten people in Hong Kong, just sneeze.

I don't think people hold United responsible for what happened, and the story is really a story of courage by the crew and passengers in fighting back. It's sort of a positive story out of a horrible situation.

If we shot them from the front, we had to be peering over the heads of the passengers in front of them.

If we were to find that somebody did get through a checkpoint with pepper spray or any other kinds of spray for that matter that are prohibited, certainly there would be cause for concern. If passengers think they got through security accidentally with something that they shouldn't have, we invite them to please come back to the checkpoint and tell our supervisors, tell our managers at the checkpoints so that we can take immediate action.

He did a fantastic job keeping all the passengers on that train very calm.

There is a false perception out there that the airlines are required to compensate passengers when their flights are canceled or delayed, when in fact, they are only required to provide compensation to passengers who were 'bumped' from an overbooked flight.

Historically, airlines have sought to maintain goodwill among their passengers by providing them with some compensation or refund.

It is not known whether the passengers are safe or have been robbed.

It is never easy to relive the events of 9/11, yet I support 'United 93' as a tribute to the heroism of my brother and the 39 other passengers and crew who collectively chose to say 'no' on that fateful day.

I will just say to you that I think it's really outrageous that we at least don't warn passengers that the cargo on a passenger plane has not been checked,

I thought we were fine but apparently it was one British holidaymaker who complained to the crew. That was the reason why the captain thought we should be taken off the flight. It's perfectly reasonable for him to be thinking about the safety of his passengers but I couldn't see any problem.

People are flying, but 33 percent of them are flying from somewhere else. We need to work with Northwest to be more competitive in this market and retain passengers out of this airport.

Our hearts are with the passengers and with the friends and family of those passengers. We're going to do everything we can for them. They're our No. 1 priority at Alaska Airlines.

Over the last 20 years, prices have fallen, when you taken into account inflation, by about a third, and travel has doubled. We also expect to be moving somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion passengers within the next 10 years.

Our research tells us that our premium passengers have two key concerns: getting quickly through the airport, and the ability to carry on working during their journey.

Our rule will ensure that all airline passengers have access to this potentially life-saving device.

Our unique local knowledge enables passengers to travel beyond the crowded game reserves to find the best wildlife watching opportunities.

Our passengers will experience even faster acceleration than Nasa astronauts. They'll see the blackness of space, and the curvature of the blue planet beneath them, and experience weightlessness.

Passengers will know that if there is a problem on the bus, the driver isn't disconnected from help.

Passengers panicked when water started seeping in and some people jumped into the river, shaking the boat which toppled and capsized.

Passengers on low-cost airlines have a common complaint that they are not given meal or accommodation in case of delays.

Passengers on Amtrak and commuter trains that share freight tracks suffer delays and unreliable service in an inefficient and congested system.

Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and private lives will be held up to public scrutiny, ... Safety and privacy will not be assured if people are targeted for searches based on incorrect criteria instead of evidence.

Passengers have to choose another route or another airport. We've seen a dramatic loss in seats.

Passengers checking bags will pay for the service they use rather than the cost being unfairly spread across everyone on the flight.

Passengers are the foundation of air travel and, in a competitive market, the airlines will continue meeting passengers' demands for more direct nonstop flights to destinations around the world with longer-range, efficient and comfortable airplanes. This requirement will be met by airplanes in the 200-to-400-seat capacity category, with relatively few very-large aircraft being needed.

Passengers are saying, 'I won't accept the offer; I want a better one,'

Passengers are now free to bring weapons back on board aircraft in the form of scissors.

our main concern is passengers and crew at the moment.

People might have to stand by for one or two flights, but inconvenience to passengers should be minimal.

Some of the stranded passengers from both the sides will cross the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday.

Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up.

I woke up around 3:15 a.m. to this loud clanging and banging. I got out of bed and opened the cabin door, and there was a man in the hall saying there was a fire two floors above us and we had to get the other passengers up and get out. I went back into the room, opened the curtains, and I could see flames and cinders and things falling on our balcony.

I think passengers believe they have seen everybody get in and out of bankruptcy protection, like Continental in the early 1990s and TWA before American Airlines bought it,

It has become a very hostile working environment. It's like working on a plantation. It's hard to greet passengers with a smile when you have employers constantly harassing employees.

It is far less cumbersome to sell it at the gate and you have essentially no waste -- it's in a refrigerator, so anything unsold can be sold on the next flight. All the food put on the plane that isn't sold is waste. We also don't have any problems with running out of the meals passengers want -- we can just pull extra meals from the next gate.

When the airport is completed in 2010, we predict the number of passengers would already reach more than 10 million, thus it is very lucrative for the commercial side.

We were unable to take an alternate route. We deeply regret the inconvenience to our passengers and the delay.

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

We encourage our passengers to check in at least three hours before their scheduled flights. We don't want to cause them any inconvenience or delay brought about by the implementation of airport safety and security inspections and procedures.