David Neeleman Quotes

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

I would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

People don't really look forward to flying that much. It's like they want to get to the place, but they don't look forward to the experience.

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.

I've spent half my life on planes.

I hate flying, taking my clothes off, and going through the whole security.

Global warming causes volatility. I feel it when I'm flying.

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

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

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.