I have just flown the A350 business class. I was underwhelmed by the comfort of the lie-flat bed and found it very claustrophobic. It must have been designed for Asians and not plus-sized Caucasians. I have found the beds on Virgin Australia, Garuda and Vietnam Airlines to give a much better sleep.

Call me old-fashioned but I grew up in an age where animals lived outside. I could perhaps cope with a cat in the cabin but the smell from a dog makes me gag. I have traveled with a seeing eye dog on the floor in row 1 domestically but I can see no reason for any other animals in the aircraft cab...

It never ceases to amaze me that people need to use the toilet as soon as the fasten seatbelt is off. FFF on a one-hour flight this shouldn't be necessary; nor should the recline of seatbacks. BOB should be able to be offered to all pax using 2 trolleys on a 1-hour flight. In Ansett days (remembe...

The economy "menu" is all based around dry stores with a long best before date. It is totally lacking in imagination and I shudder to think how many meetings had to be held to produce a list so unimaginative. Jayne needs to do a few trans-continental flights in a middle seat in economy to gain so...

I, for one, will not miss the birdseed bar or the half sandwich with a minimal lowCost filling. Choice is a good thing. I would happily buy a sandwich from Coles or Woollies rather than a lesser quality one from an airport outlet or onboard (Gate Gourmet; what a misnomer). To paraphrase my late M...