Latest BA - UK Cabin Baggage Update

[lambroving]

F.Y.I.

https://lfn.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lfn...i=&p_topview=1

[hamey]

Thank-you William.

At last some commen sence has prevailed.

Cheers.

[rob_x2004]

Are there any substantial changes here? I thought it was always pretty much like this wrt sizes and what you were allowed on board with? Maybe they just police it better now?

I must admit I was amazed at how much trash people carry onto planes. They dont use it in flight and they still carry check in so go figure. I reckon the dills travel with the kitchen sink based on they might need to wash their hands some time in the next sixteen weeks.

On four seperate occasions I heard flustered passangers remark how it would be great to travel with as little gear I had to carry, which was an R round my neck, film in a pocket, ear plugs, travel docs not including all my tickets, and to tell you the truth that was about it. Take a toothbrush in a pocket if it is more than twelve hours and laptop if it is your business, and babys crap if you have to, but gee...

No I dont stand early before it is possible to disembark. I hate the cretins that do. Hey isnt this a rant. Friday night. Heh

I hate tin cans with wings. I hate tin cans with wings. I hate tin cans ....

[stnami]

Rob the only reason why people stand is that they are used to flying Cheapascrap Tinways where you must actually pay for a seat that isn't a milk crate

[lambroving]

Rob,

Where have you been?! Until recently EVERYTHING had to go into the hold and your passport went into a plastic bag!!! This was right after the terror alert and arrests in early August. No cameras, no lap-tops, no...

Who DOESN'T hate tin cans?

[rob_x2004]

They give you a life jacket when you go out in a boat. So why do they put a life jacket under the seat when you are a mile in the air?

Gee I love tin cans with wings.

[rob_x2004]

Thankfully William, at the time I had been delayed at Ulaanbataar while the corkheads closed down the roads and airport to welcome the Japanese prime minister, then I got delayed in Beipers for eight or nine hours, maybe it was more, and where they can't for whatever reason issue bording passes for transit passengers through the cesspit of south east asia. So whilst they were losing their baggage and queueing outside Englands airports I was by that putrid hour of the morning, sleeping on the concrete waiting for the ticketing to open at Bangkok, having exited the airport to get a boarding pass, blisffully unaware of the worlds trouble and torment. I tell you it was damed cold. Damed hard.

[stnami]

Ah the wonders of the mother country (UK), some of its colonial siblings on this side of the globe still don't give a rats... about terror alerts

[rob_x2004]

Bring back to Orsova, and the Oriana. Where's Sven? He's got a ship.

[stnami]

Little Johnny ( OZ pm) sent all the boats packing to Nauru, poor Sven no more sandals and massages on Bondi Beach for that backpacker

[rob_x2004]

Like he cares. You seen his last post? He reckoned it was cafe cuisine but those of us who know him better know it was from the galley of that pleasure ship he and six of his mates try to convince us is a container vessel. http://www.leica-camera-user.com/oth...sea-salad.html

[rob_x2004]

William, you ever gt a meal like that on a tin can?

[lambroving]

Rob,

You Aussies are too much! "Tin Can" over here means something else in navy parlance, namely a destroyer. I admit I used to drive the guided missile variety, and in the U.S.N. the food in the wardroom WAS that good and that fresh. Only prob, the ship was "dry". Fortunately, I had quite a few RN friends who had marginal grub. When in port, we'd invite those starving lads to our wardroom, and the adjourn to theirs where drinks were 2 Shillings, pour your own.Somehow I think we got the better end of THAT deal...

As for the other tin can, before 9/11 I knew a purser on United who'd bring me 1st Class food back in the cheap seats on my flights to Heathrow. (Gave her a great deal on a car once.) United cancalled that route from EWR to LHR after 9/11. Now I grin and bear it...

[andybarton]

Originally Posted by lambroving

As for the other tin can, before 9/11 I knew a purser on United who'd bring me 1st Class food back in the cheap seats on my flights to Heathrow.

I bet that made you really popular with your fellow passengers at the back...

[lambroving]

Originally Posted by andybarton

I bet that made you really popular with your fellow passengers at the back...

Popular? I'm not running for office...

[andybarton]

Originally Posted by lambroving

Popular? I'm not running for office...

Sounds like it's a good job you are not...

[bindrar]

Tin cans with wings are my least favourite transportation method. I have just spent this week travelling. Camera and lenses were in checked baggage. A colleague's baggage checked in exactly after mine, came out pretty quickly onto the belt. I waited and waited. Nothing. So I went looking for lost and found - hole in my stomach as I dont know how much my insurance will cover - or even if I am upto date

Good news - as I walked past another belt half way down the airport - THERE IT WAS . That is the last time I check it in! And how the heck did it get onto belt 12 when the others from my flight were on belt 16?

Check out Bruce Schneier's blogs:-
Septembers has a section on airport security:-
Crypto-Gram: September 15, 2006

And this one is specifically about cameras.... before the above changes in security rules happened.

Schneier on Security: Expensive Cameras in Checked Luggage

An Excerpt:
Another photographer wonders if the TSA rules for firearms could be extended to camera equipment:

Why not just have the TSA adopt the same check in rules for photographic and video equipment as they do for firearms? All firearms must be in checked baggage, no carry on.
All firearms must be transported in a locked, hard sided case using a non-TSA approved lock. This is to prevent anyone from opening the case after its been screened.
After bringing the equipment to the airline counter and declaring and showing the contents to the airline representative, you take it over to the TSA screening area where it it checked by a screener, relocked in front of you, your key or keys returned to you (if it's not a combination lock) and put directly on the conveyor belt for loading onto the plane.
No markings, stickers or labels identifying what's inside are put on the outside of the case or, if packed inside something else, the bag.
Might this solve the problem? I've never lost a firearm when flying.

Then someone has the brilliant suggestion of putting a firearm in your camera-equipment case:

[stnami]

.........and that someone has a selfish, egocentric and silly attitude..... no wow factor there