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Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.