David Neeleman Quotes

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.

I'm on the road two or three days a week normally.

I probably fly twice a week, within Canada and the States.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.

I love long drives. But for me Sangli to Mumbai is a trip that I do every month at least when I am home. I think every 15 to 20 days, I come.

I travel on 150 flights a year; I am everywhere.

At United, I will dedicate myself to making our airline flyer-friendly.

The best thing about my house is that I live five minutes from the airport, and since I fly more than I drive, it saves me a lot of time.

I've spent half my life on planes.

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

I fly to London or the U.S. to record my music nearly once a month.

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

I've traveled three times a week for work for years.

Traffic snarls or jet life doesn't make a city fast.

Local airports serve an important role as economic and public safety assets for communities across the state.

I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on BA, and the leg room was fine. In business class, Virgin, BA, and Emirates are good. I've flown business class on Kingfisher, which has proper couches.

Unfortunately, I kind of split between Virginia and living in an airplane. I travel a lot.

I fly every single week, sometimes up to four days a week, and I see incredible inconsistencies in TSA throughout our country.

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Many suggested I should move to Hyderabad. But I prefer remaining in Chennai and travelling to and fro.