Of course Alan Yentob should fly business class
Two of my biggest features in the newspaper over recent months have been my interview with Matt Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, and my behind-the-scenes report from Doctor Who. But scheduling them was a bit tricky. Weiner could only spare me an hour at the very end of my trip to LA, when Mad Men had finished filming for the season and after the Emmy award ceremony. So I ended up visiting him on a Tuesday morning – but the Doctor Who script read-through was at 4pm on the following day. In Cardiff.
I drove straight from the Mad Men studios to LAX, dropped off my rental car, flew to Heathrow, picked my own car up from the car park and drove straight to Cardiff. I got there with about an hour to spare. (Enough time to check in to Cardiff’s truly awful Radisson Blu hotel – do avoid it if you can.)
I flew premium economy, and managed to get a couple of hours’ sleep. I’m 6′5″ tall and, in economy, would have got no kip at all. As it was, the long-suffering Doctor Who PR had to witness me trying not to nod off while gathering material for the huge feature that she had put together for me.
