John Tranter and the ecstasy of flight

Closing the loop on espionage, Chris de Burgh and the terminal.

I know, it’s not a picture taken from an aeroplane but those are the Swiss Alps, or at least, some of them, as viewed from a train travelling between Zurich and Genova.

On the morning of Friday 20 October 2023 I boarded an Aer Lingus flight at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and flew to Shannon airport just outside Limerick in the Republic of Ireland…