Article: Airlines are not on song with their choice of music on planes ; THE MAN WHO PAYS HIS WAY

Do airlines give any thought to the music that warbles out of the tinny loudspeakers aboard flights before take-off and after landing? When a much-delayed Binter Canarias flight from Marrakesh to Las Palmas touched down, the cabin was filled with Simply Red's rendition of "If You Don't Know Me by Now". We clock-watchers noted that the track began half way through, just before the line "When I come home a little late at night..."

The Portuguese national carrier, TAP Portugal, goes one better. As the Airbus prepared to leave Heathrow, the economy cabin was treated to "A Whiter Shade of Pale", which left one or two nervous passengers even more ashen-faced. Upon safely touching down in Lisbon, ...

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