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I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.

If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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.