SIR,—Although I cannot claim to have any hair- raising stories
of BEA ineptitude to tell, probably because I have not travelled by air enough (one would not have to use the airline often to experience some annoyance, by all reports), I have invariably noticed how much pleasanter it is to travel by an alternative airline.
Surely this is the answer. Unless one's masochistic leanings produce an absolutely irresistible longing, why use the damnable airline; after all, there cannot be many routes now where there is no alternative? I myself have frequently flown to Geneva and have found little to complain about in the service offered by Swissair.
This solution would also give one the pleasure of disobeying the farcical exhortations of, I think it was, the Daily Express last week, which sug- gested that the answer to Britain's economic imbroglio was to buy British. The answer is to use the best, or buy the best, and so force Britain to raise its standards to those of the best. To allow it to lurch on drunkenly, protected by people who are willing to put up with second best, would only increase its problems in the future.
ANTHONY EISTNGER
2 Orneron Court, Augustus Road, London, SW19
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