Preliminary lessons

摘要

Having just returned from vacation,readers were going to be subjected to a 'Mr Angry' Lead Editorial, in which I expounded on the way in which the airline industry acts in a way that contributes towards acts of unruly passenger behaviour on board aircraft. Having been subjected to humiliating and ridiculous "that's what the regulations say, Sir" procedures at the airport prior to my return flight and inhuman treatment by the airline at my European transit point, it was only the superlative aircrew who saved the day by the exemplary performance of their duties. Had they had a slightly less savvy passenger on board,they might well have become the unjust victims of an act of air rage actually instigated by their employers and handling agents on the ground. But, as I put finger to keyboard to type out my rant, the phone went as the news broke of the diamond heist at Brussels International Airport…