I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“My body is treated like a public space. 62 Air travel is another kind of hell.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“We have been gulled by the ease of air travel and other forms of communication into thinking that the world is not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Whatever the benefits of prolific and convenient air travel, we may curse it for its smooth subversion of our attempts to use… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything… — Tom Conti Copy Share Image
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“What was an infant's view of air travel? You go to a special place, walk into a large room with seats in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As you begin to create more destinations, that will naturally create a stronger economic pipeline for space. And just as we have… — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
“Logically, he understood air travel was completely possible. Emotionally, he found the idea of an enormous, tremendously heavy metal object filled with… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
“You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I put two bricks side by side in the grass and called it a race. Neither one moved so I renamed it… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“ If this isn't a guidebook, what is it? A book of sermons, perhaps. I preach that air travel be scaled back, as… — Harvey Manning Copy Share Image
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Underhill had an idea for much safer, faster transport than autos or even aircraft. “Ten minutes from Princeton to Lands Command, twenty… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“It’s my personal opinion that airlines can do two things to make air travel better for everyone. The first is to have… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
