Airliner cabins resemble airborne battery hen coops; food service is becoming a thing of the past; you can't bring on pens, electronics, food, liquids, gels or much of anything really; you're treating like a criminal rather than a customer no matter how unlikely the possibility that one is a Jihadist; there is no smoking and now no sleeping, as Bulgarian teenager Maria Ilieva, 17, learned when she nodded off on a flight home from Malta and awoke to find herself back in Malta.
According to Miss Ilieva's mother, Air Malta was all heart:
"Air Malta officials said the aeroplane was not a place for sleeping. But I have not seen any signs saying 'No sleeping', I have only seen signs saying 'No smoking',"
I don't know what is more appalling; the attitude that sleeping isn't allowed on a plane, or that in this time of heightened airline security a sleeping girl could be completely overlooked.
This is why I travel by boat.
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