Quotes About Passengers

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

One gratifying endnote is that the passengers who risked the lives of their fellow passengers and cabin crew by bringing their luggage with them lost it in the river, while those that did not got it returned.

More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Bigger airplanes, with two aisles instead of one, provide a better experience overall, and I think it's more comfortable.

Passengers come in all styles and types. But as long as they buckle their seat belts, observe the No Smoking sign, and don't pinch us as we pass, we couldn't care less.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meal. Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner toll you could kill a musk ox with.

The FAA, responding to consumer complaints, issues tough new rules under which airlines are required to notify passengers "within a reasonable period of time" if their plane has crashed.

The Most Foul were surprised and crestfallen for many minutes, finding it hard to believe that a man who had baldly stated, every day of his life, that no one was more important than himself, had in the end put himself above the rest of the passengers. He had led them to great harm and great shame, had ransacked half the ship and had allowed the ransacking of the rest, and had then escaped in a golden lifeboat without a goodbye or thank you or sorry.

The bus had a lavatory in the wayback rear, which no one ever made any attempt to use, and I remember consciously deciding to trust that the passengers had good reason for not using it instead of venturing in and discovering that reason for myself.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

Naturally, some of the passengers begin to panic. Several of them leap out into the dimly lit tunnel.

This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier.

with the Minister for Immigration, Harold Holt, and the head of his department, Heyes, who said the department would 'be very willing to co-operate', but the defectors needed to have 'satisfactory' health, be of 'reasonable age', be prepared to take whatever work was offered and should come to Australia as full fare-paying passengers in British ships.60 Subsequently, on 15 May

Contrary to popular belief, there was no "captain's table" where E. J. Smith would entertain a favored selection of passengers each night. Smith normally took his meals at a table for six in the dining saloon or in his cabin, served by his valet or "tiger" as the captain's attendant was known.

Life is a fast-moving train; we're just passengers aboard changing carriages and waiting for our unique time to disembark.

I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

Abruptly the jet was shaken by turbulence, and Joanna slumped in the seat, the bracing effect of the memory undone as the aircraft dropped hundreds of feet. From other passengers came small cries and gasps of alarm

I gathered that the chamber pot was for use in inclement weather or other emergency, as normally the ladies' modesty required stops every hour or so, at which point the passengers would scatter into the roadside vegetation like a covey of quail, even those who did not require relief of bladder or bowels seeking some relief from the stench of Mr. Graham's asafoetida bag

Brenda knew it was just a fluke, that statistically speaking I was almost always at least partially full of shit, but the other two passengers were real impressed, like I was all at one with my natural habitat.

I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.

Why the United States did not screen passengers ahead of time like El Al, Ali would never understand.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

We do not own this place, we are just passengers