I have been telling everyone who would listen that today’s flight to Trieste will most likely be my last. “God willing,” I would say, “I will see an airplane from the inside never again.” Today’s strike by British Airways staff has sealed the fate of air travel in my eyes. The mess at Heathrow was complete and total. Although I ultimately managed to book a flight to Venice instead, the misery I have witnessed will never go away. Airplanes, goodbye!