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Give Me Another Break! Airports: All toiletries above 75 ml will be seized and destroyed. This is presumably so that no one brings on board the necessary ingredients to start a sinister chemistry lab in the aircraft toilet. They don’t…
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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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Redefining Stupid: Of all the many stupid things I had done in my life, the following story hovers above gripping a stick between my teeth, leaning on the edge of a low wall then slipping; and drying a wet patch…
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British Midlands (BM), which no longer exists, having been swallowed up by British Airways (BA), used to have an early Friday evening flight from Brussels to Birmingham, England. A flight that barely took an hour in duration but because it…
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Airlines give First & Business Class passengers various advantages to justify the exorbitant prices they charge them for basically getting to the same place at the same time as everyone else at the back of the bus. Privileges include private…
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Every now and again, we come across someone who holds a torch to light the way ahead for us and we are eternally grateful to those passing strangers that set new standards for human endeavour. I am sure you can…
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Random Passenger: Excuse me this is my seat Me: My boarding pass says it is mine, I have 2B and this seat is 2B Random Passenger: But I always have 2B Me: What does your boarding pass has on it:…
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If you are travelling to Jordan, a nice country to visit, do yourself a favour: don’t leave any valuables behind on the plane. You will get it back, but not before your nerves are stretched to just before snapping point….
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Jerusalem: My very first ever air travel was pre 1967 when half of Jerusalem was part of Jordan and it had its own little international airport. I was a thin and lanky teenager whose idea of travel did not extend…
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So, which nation should appreciate and respect Champagne more than any other? The French, right? Wrong! The Air France Algiers to Paris flight was preparing to take off. I accepted a very inviting chilled flute of Champagne from the flight…
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