“A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.”

—  Richard Quest

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 <br class="br"> His blog for CNN http://edition.cnn.com/TRAVEL/blogs/richard.quest/

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