I have spent many thousands of hours in the air but for only a very small percentage of those hours have I had to actually pay. On those occasions I have usually had to shuffle down inside some sort of elongated shipping container, otherwise known as a jetty, and it is not until I actually got on to the aircraft that I could identify it. I got on that flight because it happened to be going where I wanted to go, not because it was an A or a B (for want of a better expression).
To say that the customers love this or that particular type of aircraft is all very well, but when it comes to the crunch (hopefully not!), the passenger gets, not his choice, but what is on offer.
