"What competition? There is nobody out there now providing the broadband Internet service at the speeds and connectivity rates we are providing."

— Laurette Koellner, president of Connexion by Boeing, in the May 17 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"What's in it for you to wait for your bag with 600 people? What's in it for you to wait in customs and immigration lines with 600 people?"

— Gordon Bethune, former CEO of Continental Airlines, on the Airbus A380 super-jumbo jetliner. Bethune spoke May 12 at the Investment Company Institute 2005 general membership meeting in Washington, D.C.

"We've actually been saving money on this operation by not working many weekends. We're having flight after flight without getting any squawks."

— Lars Andersen, vice president and 777 program manager for Commercial Airplanes, on how smoothly flight testing of the 777-200LR (Longer Range) is going, in the May 9 Aviation Week & Space Technology.