31 MAY 2008, Page 24

Airhead

Sir: Reading Matthew Parris’s account of his time in a Ryanair queue (Another Voice, 24 May) reminded me of a conversation I overheard some years ago as I was crossing London Bridge at rush hour.

First girl: ‘We had a smashing time in Ibiza.’ Second girl: ‘Is that in Spain?’ First girl: ‘Dunno. We went by air.’ Michael Nicholson

Grayswood, Surrey