thoughts of a travelling middle manager

I used to be travelling middle manager in a Chemical Company, that used to be part of a well known Oil Company, but is now owned by a private British Company. I used to take between 150-200 flights a year (see flight count in sidebar), travelling around our sites and offices in Europe & the Middle East. I now have a deskjob in Sharjah, but I will keep making airline travel blogs on this site. A number of people have suggested I keep a blog of my thoughts and observations - so this is it !

31 October 2008

A summer horribilis for British Holidaymakers

It's been an awful summer for Brits jumping on flights both short and long haul. There has been plenty of bankruptcies, (probably EXCEL wins the award for the most horrible in terms of stranding holiday makers); and there have been plenty of safety incidents (e.g. cabin depressurisation on Ryan Air)
This incident today probably sums up the summer as a whole (Air Europa were rumoured to be one of those "local spanish airlines" with alledged financial p