Sir David Tang, entrepreneur and founder of ICorrect, offers advice on questions about property, interiors – and modern manners for globetrotters
What are your thoughts about modern travels by commercial airlines and passenger liners?
I think the overall design of commercial aircrafts, especially for those that openly declare themselves to be “without frills”, ought to be outlawed for the way they cram as many passengers as possible into the smallest possible space. They must think they are running a battery farm for chickens. It is all because of greed dressed up as utilitarianism – to achieve the greatest income from the greatest number of people paying the greatest amount of money. The argument for making travel accessible to the masses need not imply callousness. It is bad enough before boarding to have to go through “security” like cattle in socks. The whole business of travel is now reduced to moving simply from A to B, without any sense of adventure or excitement.