Donald J. Carty

“If you are going to be a cost-based airline, you have to be the lowest-cost airline.”

“We have to have a competitive cost structure. We have to be able to pass along to our customers a competitive set of fares.”

“The single most important thing that we have to do is restore profitability.”

“Airlines are a margin business, which means that we have to be very, very careful about our costs.”

“Bankruptcy is a very tough process. It's not a place you want to be.”

“You cannot have a viable industry if you have a massive amount of excess capacity.”