Anton du Beke Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

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

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!'

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've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails.

The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.

I recently passed through Mumbai airport. I cannot claim it was a pleasant experience. But if I had a choice between Mumbai airport and Euston on a Sunday afternoon, I'd take Mumbai any day.

As players, we are traveling all around the world and in a lot of airports.

I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.

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

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.