Dear Cathay Pacific Airways

11 LonglandsRd New Mills STOCKPORT Cheshire SK12 3BL 7th May 1994 Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd 52 Berkeley Street LONDON W1X 5FP     DEAR Cathay Pacific Airways     I wish to complain most strongly about an incident which occurred on a recent flight I made with you airline from Hong Kong to London. In the late evening, a few minutes after the cabin lights had been dimmed, the young couple seated next to me started making love. When I say 'making love' I don't mean making love in the old-fashioned sense of kissing and canoodling, but in the modern sense - in other words this was full in-flight fornicating. You might think that possibly the young couple thought that I was asleep, and therefore wouldn't notice, but nothing could be farther from the truth, indeed the young lady asked me to hold her handbag. To say I was shocked would be putting it mildly; in fact I was so disturbed by the experience that I couldn't sleep for the rest of the journey from thinking about it. I didn't report the incident at the time, nor did I make any attempt to register my disapproval to the couple, as the young man was the 'physical' type, and I know better than to tangle with a man when he is sexually aroused. Before I decide what to do about the incident I would like to your views on the advisability or otherwise of aeroplanes dimming their cabin lights during night flights, as I doubt very much that the couple would have dared to do what they did had the lights remained on. Or at least not with such abandon. Personally, in view of what happened, and what I was forced to witness, I would prefer it if all the lights remained on throughout the journey, but maybe there are technical reasons why this isn't possible? I await you reply. Yours faithfully T Ravenscroft (Mr)