I was travelling from Heathrow to Oslo and connecting with a Thai flight to Bangkok. Not only did the weather turn sour but my Thai pre-flight check was vastly different to the other passengers. Now I know it’s not a logical routing but it had a lot to do with cost. So my day began early at my mid-November hotel in London. If fact so early that breakfast was not an option. Besides I’m a Qantas Club member so I can breakfast in the British Airways lounge at Heathrow. Which I did, helping myself to the British ‘fry up’ on offer with the mandatory HP sauce.

I recently travelled Alitalia and Scandinavian Airlines from Palermo, Sicily to Copenhagen via Fiumicino airport or what is commonly known as Rome.  Check-in for my Alitalia flight to Rome took forever as passengers seemed to outnumber check-in staff 50 to 1.