GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Freddie Laker
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When [British Airways] come after you, which they inevitably will, shout long, shout hard and then sue the bastards!
Sir Freddie Laker
Advice to Richard Branson regarding British Airway's dirty tricks campaign against Virgin Atlantic. Quoted by Branson in obituary, Freddie Laker, Time magazine, 31 October 2006.
“Within six years everything he had predicted in that one sentence came true, but — partly thanks to his advice — we won.”
I’m flying high and couldn't be more confident about the future.
Freddie Laker
Founder of Laker Airways, 3 February 1982. Three days later Laker Airways spectacularly collapsed with debts of £270m. At the time, it was the biggest corporate failure in the UK. Quoted in 1999 book Time Out Interviews 1968-1998.
The trouble with predators is that they don’t know who’s the prey — until he’s dead.
Sir Freddie Laker
Quoted in Empires of the Sky: The Politics, Contests and Cartels of World Airlines, 1984.
Freddie Laker
May be at peace with his Maker.
But he is persona non grata
With IATA.
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Quoted by R. E. G. Davies, Curator of Air Transport at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Airlines of the Jet Age: A History, 2001.
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