Jesse Itzler Quotes

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight, $250,000 for overseas. Yeah, that's an expensive habit.

It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.

Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

I don't really have any peeves, and I fly other carriers a good bit. My experience has been good in terms of getting on the airplane expeditiously and getting to my destination as need be, on time, with my bags - which I carry on.

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

Probably the biggest thing is the private planes. Wow, that thing's amazing. Got all the food on there, a bunch of drinks. I don't know, It's just amazing, never seen nothing like it. Tables, tables on planes, that's amazing. That was probably the biggest 'whoa' for me, like, 'I made it'. This big private jet, you're like, 'Whoa.'

Every time I fly first class, I'm like, 'Damn dude, this is sick!'

A couple of years ago, I bought my own helicopter, a Robinson R44. I use it occasionally to fly myself to sets where I am filming or to business meetings.