Erika Christensen Quotes

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.

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 loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

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

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

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 was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

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.

I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.

When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.

I wanted to be an air hostess because I thought it was the most glamorous thing - and I'd never been on a plane.

I've been thought to be a flight attendant many many times.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

My old man worked for Pan American.

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

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

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