Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Today though, many of you will be enjoying an Easter break. We are. That often brings

with it some holiday travel by playing train or automobile. We'll be taking a look at the

surprising resurgence of sleeper trains and some of the unusual ways people make

the most of traffic jams.

But first, I've got a plane to catch.

Last call for passenger Jason Palmer. Could you please proceed urgently to gate six?

So the best airport so completely unmemorable. You arrive, you glide through customs, you pick

up your bags if you have any and you just go straight through and get into a taxi and

disappear. Robert Guest is our foreign editor and one of the economist's most frequent

flyers. Everything's clean, no one hassles you, it doesn't take very long and you forget

about it shortly afterwards. That's how airports should be. But there are still a lot of

airports that don't really fall short of this perfect, unmemorable experience but are

positively exciting. I got a sense of how troubling bad airport experiences can be in

an email chain that went around. I put a little description of a particularly terrible

airport that I'd just been through into an email and I sent it to all the editorial staff

at the economist. Obviously we have burrows all around the world and a lot of globetrotting

correspondence and I asked them to share their experiences of what were the most appalling

airports that they'd ever been to. And it attracted the swiftest and most passionate

response of any email I have ever sent to the staff. People complaining about having

to corkscrew down into airports while people were shooting, people complaining about being

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