Anthony Foxx Quotes

Never, ever get on an American Airlines flight. They will make you wait four hours, and then, when you complain about it, you will be kicked off your flight, and they will rob you of your money.

I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.

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

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.

I feel like there's no reason to put myself through what I put myself through for 20-something years on airplanes, especially these days. You don't know whether your pilot is going to drop dead over the ocean; you don't know when you try to land whether the wheels are going to come down; you can be searched and seized and detained and quarantined.

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.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

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

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.

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

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

I just can't stand being in airports anymore. I just can't stand it.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

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

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

People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

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

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just to be on time, but to be early. If you hold up the departure of the jet by as much as 10 minutes, you may cause the plane to wait in line for another hour or two before obtaining new clearance.