John Grant Quotes

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

I never thought about acting, I wanted to be an air hostess.

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

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

This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.

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

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.

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

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

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.

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

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

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

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.

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.