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Fuel is a basic part of the business. Everybody basically pays the same price for fuel. It is a matter of how appropriately you trade off capital costs against operating costs. New airplanes burn less fuel but they take more capital.

— Robert Crandall

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If you're going to have an active and successful democracy, you have to have equal opportunity.

I became successful because I lived in a society that offered an opportunity to everyone.

In the '50s and '60s ... if you worked hard and tried hard, you could do well. It's much harder to climb the ladder of economic success now than it was then.

The ubiquity of social media only makes the point. You look at what other people have and you can never get because you don't have education, because you don't have access to medical care, because there's no decent jobs.

Everyone will be looking for ways to distribute around that cost difference and to add value in ways that are low cost carrier may not be able to offer that. So it promises to be an extraordinary, interesting time and the airline has always been interesting.

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