Young people have a vested interest in the future and will have to pick up the tab for my generation.
The latest scientific opinion says we only have a decade to make big changes before it's too late.
Everyone has to make sacrifices if we want to see our grandchildren have a half decent life.
Lesley Haddon
Rotorua
Air travel woes
Regarding air travel, (Opinion, October 11), recently my wife and I had a holiday in Phuket.
Luckily we spent an extra amount on reserving our tickets to our destination.
While we were on holiday, our travel agent contacted us to advise that our return flight from Melbourne to Auckland had been cancelled and we had been rebooked on a later flight.
Our original flight was within three hours of arriving in Melbourne, but the later flight was 10 hours later, so we had to spend the extra time doing the same as your correspondent and having to pay for expensive airport meals.
On boarding our flight, we discovered that we were not seated together from Melbourne to Auckland. No explanation given.
My wife was very upset over the separation as she is a nervous flier.
Our later flight into New Zealand inconvenienced us, as well as the motel that we had booked arriving well after midnight.
Our experience has also ensured that we will do our best to avoid travelling with this airline where possible.
Fortunately, it was not a New Zealand airline (and one hopes that it will never adopt the same practice) but our near neighbour's national airline.
Jim Anderson
Whakatane
