I’ve just spent fifteen minutes on the phone to Air Canada. Ten minutes of that was spent trying to convince them that I did in fact have a booking. They constantly asked me for pieces of reference that I didn’t have, and when they came up with one I did, they couldn’t find me. And then they did, so what their problem was I don’t know.

When you book a flight you get to choose one type of meal from the drop-down list, so I chose non-lactose, since that only takes an hour to make me ill. So I asked them if I could have gluten free too to keep it simple, as if I listed everything I couldn’t have they’d throw a wobbler no doubt.

But then I spent five minutes trying to convince them that’s what I needed, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to eat at all. At the end of that time all she could tell me was that I could try and ask them when I check in. Which is really helpful.

When I last flew to America Virgin managed to get me something I could eat from First Class, but there’s no guarantee of that, so I’ll have to bring enough to eat for the whole flight.

As if flying isn’t stressful enough, given that I get travel sick and worry about getting there in time.

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