QANTAS passengers have reacted with shock and despair after the airline dumped a feature that had helped make air travel a bit more bearable.

REMEMBER when people used to get dressed up to fly? Me neither. But I’ve read enough glowing cliches about the “golden age of travel” to know that wearing thongs and tracksuit pants on a plane was not going to fly (literally and figuratively).

A WOMAN was forced to cancel a dream holiday to New York after mistakenly telling US immigration officials she was a terrorist.

THIRTY passengers suffered ear and nose bleeds on a horror Jet Airways flight when the crew forgot to switch on the cabin pressure system.

HANGING upside down, severely hungover and terrified I could throw up at any moment into the teacher I was precariously balancing on, I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell had happened.