The price of luxury

In October, it's Oma's birthday so it seems we are both morally and legally obliged to take the twins to her birthday party so that they can knock people's drinks over for a half hour, shout that they want to go home, cause a general tantrum and be dragged away after an hour.

In my extensive searches on the interweb, I've found that Air India fly from LAX to Frankfurt, and they charge about $200 less per ticket than anyone else. That's £400 total savings, in old money.

The reviews I've found aren't really all that mixed. It's crap. Well, the food is good (if you like vegetarian food, and curry - so two thumbs up there) but everything else is a bit grim.

It's about 24 hours of total flying time - which makes £16 per hour. I can't decide between statement A:

• Flying is really grim anyway. It's only going to be relatively a tiny bit grimmer.

And statement B:

• Flying is really grim anyway. It's worth paying to make it less grim.