On our way

Well,we're in Hong Kong Airport wait into to join our flight to Zurich. We have some cheap business class tickets on Swiss and I'm not sure what to expect. We were just approached by a young airline person who tried to get us to check our hand luggage in because it's a very small plane. 'How small I asked?' 'Very small,' was all he would say. Are we off to Europe in a Cessna?

We've just had a very pleasant flight on a Cathay A330. At Sydney I discovered I have a very unusual power - to bring the $15 billion Customs passport control system to its knees. I scanned my passport then I thought it wanted me to do something with my boarding pass with the result that it ended up caught under the glass of the scanner thingy. More senior Customs officers had to be brought. A technician was required. No one could pass until the situation was resolved. Luckily a tech was nearby and it was all resolved quickly. But Customs need to know that a posse of short-sighted, old ladies with boarding passes and evil intent could gum up that system for hours.