In this talk we will discuss a property for pairs of Banach spaces related to the existence of norm preserving lifts of operators. More precisely, a pair of Banach spaces $(X,J),$ with $J$ a closed subspace of $X,$ has the quotient lifting property iff for every space $Y$ and $S\in L(Y,X/J)$, there is $\hat{S} \in L(Y,X)$ such that $S=\pi \circ \hat{S}$, with $\pi$ denoting the quotient map from $X$ onto $X/J$. Several necessary and sufficient conditions for this property to hold will be presented as well as many illustrative examples. This talk is based on joint work with Monika, Richard Fleming and T.S.S.R.K.Rao.