My advice to a pal, Pete, planning a trip to east Asia, was unequivocal: “Fly on one of the Chinese airlines: cheaper, quicker and less damaging for the environment.”
Twenty-four hours earlier, I had told reader Bill White that China Southern was the optimum carrier for a trip to the most distant big city from the UK, Christchurch in New Zealand. “That’s the one I would take,” I added.
