Auckland airport. A bomb threat meant we were evacuated and made to sit on the tarmac for hours in the freezing cold Wouldn't the bomber see where we were and then blow us up?!

Melbourne airport. I am a nervous flyer so sometimes I take Xanax as I get panic attacks. I got so nervous the first time I took them that instead of the intended one tablet every three hours, I took three in one hour. I don't remember the flight at all and they nearly had to scrape me off the plane.

Maroochydore airport. I was going home from a conference and assumed the big plane I flew there in was the big plane I'd be coming home in. Nup, they walked us out along the tarmac to a WWII-looking tin can on wheels that seated about 36 people, including the pilot. It wasn't even a plane, it looked like something that had been made of scraps of sheet metal and attached with pop rivets. Then she'll be right, give her a coat of white paint and no one will be the wiser! I refused to get on the plane and the controller guy with the paddles and I had a big argument - he kept waving me to get on the plane and I get waving that there is no way I'm getting on this relic. I eventually got in and the two guys behind me kept stirring me up by telling me how often small planes crash. The plane was so small that the hostess gave us one mint on a tray as our meal.