Rod Eddington Quotes (22 Quotes)


    The English are mildly confident this year, which gives me heart because they're probably going to get stuffed on the Ashes 2005

    The tragic events in the USA will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the demand for air travel in the months ahead, ... We have taken the necessary steps to curtail expenditure and sadly to cut our workforce.

    I am confident we will have it (Concorde) back in the air by late summer.

    The industry must unite to develop an effective strategy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions,

    Taxes which doubled the cost of aviation fuel and cost airlines and their passengers 50 billion (96 billion) each year would cut less than 0.5 percent off the growth of air traffic over a 30 year period.


    The luck I've had has all been bad. I've had the Concorde crash, 911,foot and mouth, the Gulf war, Sars and high fuel prices. It might make you doubt my sanity, but I've enjoyed it.

    The encouraging yield performance shows that our strategy is serving us well and, equally important, is helping us face the difficult market conditions.

    We can survive this, British Airways is a strong company, and will come through this in good shape, but we have to take the necessary tough measures.

    It's important to staff and customers, it's important to link New York and London.

    We are taking a ruthless approach towards poorly performing routes and assets. Those not adding value to improve performance are being removed.

    We need to address the problems at Gatwick, but a key part is fleet changes across short-haul operations and we also need to be clear about what destinations we can serve profitably,

    BA argues that Chapter 11 is used as another form of state aid and keeps the industry bloated at a time when it would benefit from a sharp reduction in airlines. In the last four years, the U.S. airlines have soaked up 15 billion to 20 billion (12 billion-16 billion) of public subsidies and loan guarantees, ... They're operating in protected markets, they're hoovering up public funds and still they can't make a profit.

    In the meantime, we will continue to take steps to improve the performance of our company. Through our fleet and network strategy, through continued product improvement and by working with our established alliance and franchise partners.

    We are looking hard at what we need to do. It may be necessary to look again at the number of people we employ. If that's necessary we will be working with unions and staff to move forward in a sensible way,

    The figures show our strategy is delivering results, ... Most notably, our new Club World product (flying beds)... continues to push up yields and win market share from competitors.

    The British CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) was in complete agreement with our decision to resume Concorde's services shortly after the Air France crash.

    I apologize unreservedly to our customers for the disruption to their travel plans and cancellation of our flights,

    We have made real progress in managing our costs but British Airways still faces a number of other considerable challenges some of which were apparent before the terrorist attacks on the U.S.

    We were notified this morning by the Air Accidents Investigation Bureau, an arm of the Civil Aviation Authority that in light of the latest information available to it that it and its French counterpart would tomorrow recommend that the certificate of airworthiness should be suspended, ... As soon as we heard this, we immediately withdrew the supersonic fleet from service.

    significant change to the size of British Airways as it takes further steps to address its cost base and sets the company on course to achieve a 10 percent operating margin.

    I believe that the basic planks of our strategy ... are a good foundation for a return to profitability,

    If 50 years of post-war economics has taught us anything, it's this state subsidies preserve bad habits.


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