I left Melbourne for London in 1989 and have returned annually ever since. It’s a very long way, however you do it.
“I think we’ve gone into a black hole.” The woman next to me has never flown long-haul before. Hair in tufts above her pushed-up eye-mask, mascara in broken fronds on her cheeks, she digs both elbows into her armrests and hovers briefly in midair before settling herself onto her other bum cheek.
The three-hour limbo at Changi Airport was manageable, too, what with all the teeny tropical wings fluttering prettily inside the humid Butterfly House, the calorific flourish of whipped cream on my cappuccino and a foot massage in the spa in Terminal 3 fortifying me, supposedly, for the trek ahead. I’m a freelance writer. When boarding, I turn right. For a while I tried staying loyal to different airlines until I could no longer afford their fares: Emirates, I’m looking at you. Now I figure that if the carrier’s reputation is decent enough, long-haul economy is long-haul economy. Just get me there in one piece. I’ve to-and-fro-ed so many times that I should probably be immune to jet lag or have a system in place to avoid it.
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