‘A picture is worth a thousand words?’ ...yah, that’s the one! Really, what to say about this one...after venting our distaste over the Budget Terminal episode we’re feeling in a more benevolent mood and so we’ll go easy on this poor trolley dolly and the obviously poor airline she works for (oops, we couldn’t help ourselves!). We know which carrier it is, do you? Send us the correct answer and we’ll send the first five … [Read more...] about Ummm, how does that saying go?

When Singapore unveiled its new low cost terminal a couple of years back amid much huppla – including a contest to name the terminal, which ultimately was named “Budget Terminal” (we kid you not!), great pains were taken to explain to the domestic audience, long accustomed to the comforts of Changi Airport, that in order to reduce costs certain passenger comforts had to be sacrificed. In the end it was a very sensible terminal that, although fairly basic, is certainly a … [Read more...] about When budget reall y does mean B-U-D-G-E-T.

We couldn’t resist this one. An email back several weeks ago to Marc Boudier, the EVP of Air France Cargo was returned with an auto-reply message that made it quite clear some changes were afoot in the upper echelons of the AF-KLM group. Here’s the auto-reply message: Now before we go any further, we have to issue the caveat that we’ve never claimed to be multi-lingual here at Belly Ache Central. So of course it’s no surprise that we took great … [Read more...] about Lost in translation