On my flight over to LHR on AC in mid-May to attend a documentary film festival, I sat next to film director Atom Egoyan who was on his way to Cannes to premiere his latest feature. He slept most of the way, but we chatted film biz stuff during our unscheduled stop at YYT, and on our walk to the transit buses.

As posted in the BA forum, on my Concorde flight from LHR last month, Michael Jackson was buried under his blanket three rows behind me for virtually the whole flight, while Barbara Walters was working away two rows in front. The back cabin was almost empty save the two celebs and about seven others of us ordinary folk, plus our two "galley slaves", as the FAs liked to refer to themselves.

Heading over, I had Sir Peter Hall, the theatre dramaturge sitting behind me. It was one of those wonderful moments of serendipity when I was reading a pile of newspaper clippings I had collected over the past couple of weeks to read on the flight, and one of the articles was a feature interview with him from the FINANCIAL TIMES. Of special interest to Andrew Webber, Sir Peter carries his BOSE noise reducing headphones with him when he flies...