David Neeleman Quotes

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, 'I don't want them, because I'm sick of flying!'

I hate flying, taking my clothes off, and going through the whole security.

They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.

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

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

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

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

There are months when I'm on a plane every day!

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

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 have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.

I'm one of those people who loves to fly.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing.

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

When I go to the U.S., the flights are long, and they do affect the body clock, but they are worth it.

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.