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After eating a hearty in-flight lunch, washed down with a couple of alcoholic drinks, trans-Atlantic flights are bound to make you tired and sleepy so, you fall asleep. Airplane seats are designed to maximise the number of passengers that can…
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I took the short flight from London to Amsterdam last Sunday. I had an aisle seat and a middle-aged couple joined me; the woman taking the window seat and her oversized husband the middle one. He could just about push-fit…
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Unless you have just come out of prison after serving a 75-year sentence (what could you have done to get such a long stretch?), you must have experienced the safety instructions given on commercial airlines. They vary from one airline…
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I have suspected for a long time what I am about to tell you. For a few years now I have had to travel from Jordan to Cyprus via Beirut when I was unable to get a 45-minute direct flight…
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“Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, once again we would like to apologise for the delay to our flight BA663 to London Heathrow Airport. We will now begin by boarding all those who require special assistance such as those in wheelchairs…
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Give Me A Break! Airlines: You are advised to arrive at the airport 2 hours before your flight is due to take off Why, is it so you can make hundreds of people drag their heavy luggage through snaking lines…
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Is there anything more irritating than hearing the same funny line over and over again and be expected to laugh? You know statements like: “I am on a seafood diet, whenever I see food I eat it”, or “you don’t have…
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Why do I find airlines cabin entertainment of “Just for Laughs” so unbelievably annoying? Is it the canned laughter, the overacting by the third rate actors on the show, the unfunny and not very credible situations they create, or is it…
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