The ideal solution is an airplane with the right size and range to meet today’s passenger demand, while not requiring the use of standard airports. The ideal solution is flying directly from point to point, with no hubs in between.
-Boeing Frontier Magazine, July 2002
Delays in reaching your destination will degrade the overall travel experience. The optimum solution is always to go the distance point-to-point.
-Randy Baseler, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President of Marketing
Passenger traffic in the United States has increased by 40 percent in the past 10 years and is expected to exceed one billion by the end of the decade. In order to keep pace with anticipated passenger growth, airports would have to re-create the equivalent of the 17 largest airports or 10 new airports the size of Atlanta Hartfield, Chicago O’Hare or Dallas/Ft. Worth.
-Airports Council International of North America report
There's undeniable pleasure in snubbing the majors. After all, they operate aluminum cattle cars, and treat their customers accordingly. They're overpriced, unresponsive, inconvenient and abusive. Movement through commercial terminals today is roughly equivalent to getting mugged and booked by the same people.
-November 2004 Business & Commercial Aviation Magazine
A study by the FAA says at least 43 airports will need to add capacity — some dramatically — in the next 15 years. Some face a crunch even sooner. Atlanta, Newark, O'Hare, Philadelphia and New York LaGuardia are already deemed too busy. San Antonio, West Palm Beach and Tucson will hit capacity by 2013. The FAA says adding runways and boosting capacity is essential, but that may be easier said than done.
-USA Today March 29, 2004
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“Where we are most vulnerable at this moment is on the ground," NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker recently noted. "To me, this is the most dangerous aspect of flying.”
-Propwash, April 27, 2008
We landed shortly after 5 p.m. -- several minutes ahead of schedule, ironically -- only to spend the next two hours -- two hours -- taxiing from the end of the runway to our parking position. Our assigned gate was open and available the entire time, but the airport had become a spaghetti snarl of planes. Taxiways were blocked; aprons, clogged. It was literally gridlock -- with scores of 50- and 70-seat RJs jockeying for space with A340s and 747s.
-Salon.com, October 5, 2007
The bad news is it's not going to get better soon. If anybody thinks we're going to get resolution of flight delays, they are smoking the funny weed.
-Rep. John Mica, R-Florida April 13, 2008
Minneapolis-St. Paul... has 56 flight departures scheduled in one 15 minute time period. That is nearly three times the airport's average departure capacity for that time.
The air travel experience has been degraded so much that now I'll do anything to avoid it. Now I want hazard pay just for heading to the airport.
-Jonathan Miller, Dear American Airlines
