Cenk Uygur Quotes

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

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!'

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

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.

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

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 don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

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.

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 hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

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.

I know easyJet is not luxury, but we certainly don't charge for wheelchairs or take away essentials. You have to make the passengers reasonably comfy for the sake of health.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

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.