Margaret Smith Quotes

I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

Spending time in airports and planes is probably my least favourite part of being a tennis player.

Wherever I can get a fast track, I'll try to because I can't stand the airport experience. If you can afford priority boarding, then do it. Nobody wants an unpleasant experience before it starts.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.

I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.

I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails.

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way.

I'm not the biggest fan of airports. I try to arrive a few minutes before check-in closes.

On flights, I cannot travel economy class, as I am too huge to fit into that space. I always have to travel business class.

I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.

As players, we are traveling all around the world and in a lot of airports.

I remember after 9/11, I started - I was working quite a bit in Vancouver. And then I realized I would go to catch my flight, and it would take me like 20 minutes to get cleared to fly, like, every time. I'm like, what is going on?

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines.

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.