I thought it would be timely for us to start collectiong them, hopefully for use as he is fired by the board.

Here's a start...please do add.

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Continental Airlines' top executive apologized Thursday for referring to rival United Airlines as "HIV-positive" - a remark that prompted outrage from AIDS advocacy groups.

Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.


It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.


We will not cut benefits from OnePass, our industry-leading frequent flyer program, because we remain committed to rewarding our most loyal customers.


Not admitting mistakes is what causes organizations to get sick. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over in exactly the same way and expecting different results.

Business travelers "are kind of like the canary in the mine shaft," said Gordon Bethune

Continental Airlines CEO Gordon Bethune told Bloomberg News that executive pay caps are "stupid."

In 1995, Continental Airlines shuttered its Continental Lite operation after it lost $300 million in 15 months, causing Chief Executive Gordon Bethune to later remark: "By chasing away the customers, we lost more money than we made."

The Financial Times Deutschland quotes Continental Airlines Chief Executive Gordon Bethune, "We'll see at least two more bankruptcies, one in Chicago and one in Phoenix."

Gordon M. Bethune usually struts with enough Texan swagger to stave off the clouds of gloom and doom. He drives a Porsche, rides a Harley and takes spins in the Boeing jets flown by Continental Airlines, which he happens to run. But lately, Bethune has been reduced to throwing up his hands. "We're a stupid industry led by stupid people," he said, his face twisted somewhere between a grimace and a smirk.

For some reason TSA thinks that dumping out our passengers' underwear at the gate after it has already been dumped out at the security screening checkpoint makes TSA look like they are on top of things,'' [Continental Airlines Chairman Gordon] Bethune said in a speech to the Wings club of New York in June.