Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

Wherever I can get a fast track, I'll try to because I can't stand the airport experience. If you can afford priority boarding, then do it. Nobody wants an unpleasant experience before it starts.

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

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

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

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

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

Airports drive me mad. I don't mind the flying; it's all the hassle before you get on the plane and afterwards, including walking five miles through corridors to the point where you queue for ages to check passports and hope your luggage has arrived safely.

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

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

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

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

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.

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

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.

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!'

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.

I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand around; it also minimises problems at check-in.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.

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 hate flying. I literally cry in the airport sometimes. I didn't used to; the more I fly, the worse it gets. It's weird!

Flying isn't great for me - or getting caught in a crowd.