My wife and I went for a short break to Florence last week. The weather was stunning – there may not have ben a cloud in the sky in the five day...

It seems a long time ago that we were in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic (OK, it started in March 2020) and a time when we thought we might neve...

There is a famous old song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David called Trains and Boats and Planes. It was perhaps most popularised by the American...

The photo on the home page shows an aeroplane’s vapour trail on a glorious summer’s evening. My most recent flight out of the UK was in fa...

A couple of weeks ago I went to France for a few days, flying out of London City Airport on an early-morning British Airways flight to Nice. (There...

Now we are heading into the heart and heat of summer, we can confidently expect longer and more frequent delays to any flight plans we may have. The e...

Last week I went abroad for a short break, specifically taking a flight that went from Gatwick to Kalamata in the Peloponnese region of southern mainl...

Last month I did something for the first time that millions have been doing for ages: I flew easyJet. I went to Nice and back from Gatwick on a four-d...

The photo of Heathrow Terminal 5 on the home page looks, appropriately, a little like a view from a prison cage. And there seems to be no end in sight...