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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.

Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

The need for air transport is real, and it's not going to change. The key is to have the right business model and have the right initiatives, in my view, to succeed.