Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"We're mad as hell"

Source: Greg Davidowitch, President of AFA-CWA at United Airlines. Carrying signs with such slogans as "Fix It Now" and "We Are United, They Are Pigs," around 400 pilots, mechanics, and flight attendants for United picketed outside the Field Museum Thursday, where inside the first shareholders meeting for the carrier in five years was underway. An event intended to celebrate the improvement in the once-bankrupt carrier's fortunes, reports the Chicago Tribune, instead turned into an open confrontation between airline executives, and the workers under them.

FMI: www.unitedafa.org, www.alpa.org, www.united.com