WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR FIRST CLASS FLIGHT IS CANCELLED.

A private sector's guide for luxury flyers

Commercial aviation loves to pretend everything is under control. Meanwhile thirty thousand travellers were grounded last week when strike action rippled through major European hubs. Families stranded. Business plans derailed. Holiday travel taken hostage.

If you are a luxury flyer, and especially a single parent traveling with a child, the question is not how to avoid chaos. It is how to move through it without losing your time, your energy or your sanity.

A canceled flight is not the end of the trip. It is the beginning of a different plan.

Start with your child. A calm child buys you time.
This part is rarely said out loud. Delays unravel families because the child unravels first. Pack with intention.