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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.

— 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.

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.

Frequency has always been desired. This is what the public wants, it was frequent fights. It does not want a few flights on big airplanes. So, the industry, if they’re going to serve the public properly, isn’t going to use bigger equipment until it already has enough frequency.

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