Quotes about Air Travel

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. Votes: 4

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace. Votes: 4

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. Votes: 4

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day. Votes: 4

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric. Votes: 4

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses. Votes: 4

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course. Votes: 4

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed. Votes: 4

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore. Votes: 4

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. Votes: 3

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys. Votes: 3

Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges. Votes: 3

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Votes: 3

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream. Votes: 3

There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip. Votes: 3

If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life. Votes: 3

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ? Votes: 3

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. Votes: 3

Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum." Votes: 3

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all. Votes: 3

Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full." Votes: 3

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece. Votes: 3

As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete." Votes: 3

It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui. Votes: 3

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized. Votes: 1

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays. Votes: 1

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Votes: 1

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now. Votes: 1

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. Votes: 1

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers. Votes: 1

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. Votes: 1

I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab Emirates, which has done a terrific job recognizing the value of transportation, of travel. Votes: 1

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Votes: 1

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem. Votes: 1

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane. Votes: 1

Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors. Votes: 1

The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort. Votes: 1

I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed them everywhere, just in case I ever feel the need to throw up. I haven't vomited since 1977, but I think about it all the time. I recognize that it's irrational, but I'd rather jump out of a window than vomit. Votes: 1

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air. Votes: 1

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time. Votes: 0

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring. Votes: 0

The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years. Votes: 0

Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. Votes: 0

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? Votes: 0

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk. Votes: 0

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. Votes: 0

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me. Votes: 0

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes. Votes: 0

A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world. Votes: 0

I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in 1906 to modern space travel. Votes: 0

The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe. Votes: 0

We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting. Votes: 0

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible." Votes: 0