Why does anyone ever complain about long haul flights? They’re great. After arriving at Heathrow we get told that our flight has been overbooked and that unfortunately they will have to pay £50 to change airlines and fly with Qantas, the main Australian airline, and go on an earlier flight which means we have more time in Hong Kong for our connection. Unfortunately because we changed airlines it meant that Qantas had no more seats for three in the standard economy so they put us in the first row of economy which meant we only had as much leg room as first class. Then of course there was the tiring business of sitting on my ass for eleven and a half hours whilst I watched brand new films on the personal television set and had cooked food and ice creams brought to me by the airhostesses. The jetlag too is a problem except that because I cunningly planned and went to bed so late anyway, staying up for about thirty hours straight and changing time-zones effectively meant that I reset my body clock to get tired in the evening and wake up in the morning. What isn’t there to like about long haul flights?
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