Tom Conti Quotes

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.

Flying commercial airlines has become an all-too-often unpleasant experience.

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

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.

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.

In the Space Age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours—one hour for flying, and one hour to get to the airport.

There's no anger in my act towards anyone other than myself... and maybe airlines.

The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

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.

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

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.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

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.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

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

I don't miss going to airports and hanging out in hotel rooms.

I get very creative when I'm trapped in a plane and I can't do anything else.

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