ITA (also 7 - 27 April) has flights for 1000 euro per person from AMS. Luggage inclusive, seat reservation has to paid for, or you can wait till check in. We will do that as seats for two persons would have amounted to almost 600 for the roundtrip.

Now my kid is a teenager airlines are more than willing to ensure we don’t sit together without the seat-choice-tax. I’ve aborted bookings once these charges became apparent.

A couple of months ago, LapGirl’s nose randomly and completely unexpectedly burst. One moment she was peacefully “painting” on her iPad, the next moment it was the elevator blood flood scene from The Shining. I leapt into action and managed to ensure nothing dripped onto the furnishings. Asiana definitely saved itself a huge cleaning bill by not encouraging us to sit apart from each other.