Ed Perkins Quotations

The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.

We got off to a fast start and we wanted that on a cold night. We let them come back into the game, but then we toughened up in the second half. We didn't worry too much about (the fumbles). That's gonna happen on a night like this.

As far as the operation of the airline is concerned, almost nothing changes. People keep buying tickets, the airline flights operate as usual, and travelers would be hard-put to know that the bankruptcy ever happened.

It kind of reminded us of last year. And that's a place we definitely didn't want to go to again.

Since labor action falls into the same category as 'Act of God' and 'Act of War,' the carriers have no legal obligation to do anything for the consumer,

People will spend two hours looking around London or Paris to save $2 on exchange costs. That's really crazy.

Just call your bank and tell them, 'I'm going to be using this card in France or Bongo or wherever it is.

The feeling there is that you're getting at least some kind of consensus.

Passengers are saying, 'I won't accept the offer; I want a better one,'

I think we're talking a minimum of 20 years and maybe 30 since something like this happened.