"Flying is like taking a very expensive Greyhound bus" - Shari Flasness
I found this as a note from the June meeting of the Italian Conversation Group at Sir Ben's in Duluth. The conversation is more often about travel to Italy than speaking Italian.
But Shari's expensive bus is starting to get poor maintenance. See "Fixing American Airlines", 2012-10-23, Jim Hightower, republished in the 2012-10-25 Reader Weekly.