SKYGODS Quotes

“For some of the new airline pilots, withdrawal from the military had not been easy.  They still carried with them, like old school sweaters, the peculiar culture distinctions of their service.”
― Robert Gandt, SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am

“For half a century, Pan Am had flown the flag from Capetown to Moscow to Buenos Aires to Oslo.”
― Robert Gandt, SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am

“Pan Am was providing what amounted to a private 707 to carry the boss back and forth to Eleuthera. On most days the flight’s only purpose was to deliver Trippe’s Wall Street Journal.”
― Robert Gandt, Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

“If nobody is happy, then it’s an equitable merger. —Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration”
― Robert Gandt, Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am