There is an element of Stockholm syndrome when people talk about loving to fly. Truth is it's simply the fastest way to cross large distances and our lives have adjusted to that fact. We are asked to take business trips and we plan to take leisure trips that were simply unfeasible in the age before air travel became possible.

But the reality is that, of course, flying in any class is actually less comfortable in practice than even steerage on a late 19th century ocean liner (First Class on an ocean liner had more in common with life in a royal household than flying First). That's because you need to offer a lot more comfort to sell a place you'll spend a week or two in than a place most people won't ever spend over 12 hours in. And of course the economics of space are different on the ocean than in the air. But that doesn't change the unpleasantness of it all. I'll be honest even J and F aren't exactly so comfortable as to make it much of a pleasure at all, it's simply less of a nuisance.

I like plane trips nevertheless, because I really like planes from a technical standpoint, I like airlines from an operational standpoint and I like the atmosphere of airports, but I don't actually enjoy my time *on* the plane.