Manchester Airport big breakfast was the fuel we needed for four-hour flight, but there was one shock

I remember when everyone on the plane was served an in-flight meal in a little foil tray.

Breakfast was probably the best you could hope for, but even that wasn't up to much, often with soggy scrambled egg and rubbery bacon.

With today's flight menus usually consisting of a few hot sandwiches, we decided to eat at the airport instead.

Unable to get a table at Terminal 3's newer The Lion and Antelope Pub & Kitchen, we headed to Trattoria Milano.

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It might well be your typical Italian pizza and pasta place, but it serves breakfast and light bites too.

With a four-hour flight ahead of us, the Massimo Breakfast seemed the obvious choice - with two rashers of bacon, two sausages, a hash brown, beans, tomato, black pudding and scrambled egg.

Costing a rather hefty £16, you'd at least expect a bit of toast thrown in, but that's an extra £1.60 PER SLICE, which seems steep even by airport standards.

The quality of the grub softened the blow somewhat, especially the succulent sausages and golden crispy hash brown. That and the fact that service was so swift and with a smile. It was piping hot when it arrived too, with the toast perfectly positioned like a blanket over the bacon and sausages keeping them warm.

My daughter's sausage sandwich, £7, was a little less enticing, but I'm not sure what could be done to make white bloomer bread with sausages any more attractive, except for halving the price perhaps.

Our youngest on the other hand chose a Breakfast Ciabatta, priced £8.75 - a toasted ciabatta with bacon, sausage and scrambled egg.

It looked a lot more satisfying, with a decent amount of filling, and he ate every last bit,