First published in Daily Maverick 168
Our little boy has just turned one, which means he doesn’t yet need his own seat, which is great because we save on costs. We owed my mom a visit in Pretoria and she couldn’t wait to spend some time with her grandkid, but on the other hand it would have been more worth it if the ticket had come with a sitter, two beds for my partner and I and perhaps, as an extra kindness, sleeping tablets so we could just pass out for the one-and-a-half-hour flight from Cape Town to Lanseria.