Sitting on a flight yesterday I realised that I take the wonders of air travel for granted. Last week I drove from Budapest to the UK and it took me 28 hours of driving spread over two days. This is at a cost of €300 in fuel, €120 for a ferry and €20 of tolls. The return leg took me two and a half hours at a cost of €80. That’s an incredible difference in cost, time and comfort.

It’s easy to bemoan the lack of glamour in air travel, the shrinking leg-room and the endless upsells. But every single item on the drinks trolley is cheaper than at European motorway services. Sitting in a plane seat is no less comfortable than the driving seat of a car and you are able to read, work, watch TV or sleep.

I’ll never complain about flying again.