Comments on: Sky Pirates

By: travelling foe

travelling foe — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:26:18 +0000

Great Web site !! love it all , and the articulate comments are a pleasure to read.
RE Overweight, the situation is truly crazy! I would never fly RyUn Air, they are Pirates in every sense, from the way they treat their own staff through to the passenger, who it seems are their ultimate inconvienece to them!
As for over weight passengers: i fully concur! how can someone be so physically obese that they ‘overflow’ into my (already) cramped seat, how would they feel if I sat on their lap for the entire flight!
solution SIMPLE, and would cause no offence : take the international standard for BMI, slightly overweight, get a warning and a health guide, into the BMI RED (obese) you have to pay the excess or an extra seat.
Internationally agreed medical guidelines, so the airline could hide behind the facts ! – something even the Pirates would gain (some) public respect for, rather than trying to charge to use the onboard toilet!

By: Carlos Karloff

Carlos Karloff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:57:16 +0000

I remember report in Germany about what happens to all those bottles of expensive perfume, scotch whiskey, fine wine etc that were being confiscated when people changed flights within the European Union. You fly in from London to Frankfurt with a bottle of duty free Scotch, but then when you change planes to continue to Cologne, the Scotch is confiscated because it’s over the 100ml allowance. It’s diabolically brilliant! Do the airport staff divvy the loot up at the end of each day? Well, according to above-mentioned report, apparently no.
Reporter: Why is it confiscated?
Airport PR man: It could be explosive or poisonous.
Reporter: Oh, so you throw all that expensive stuff away then? Airport PR man: No, no that would be wasteful.
Reporter: So what happens to the stuff then?
Airport PR man: Oh, we give that to the homeless people at Christmas time.

Only in Germany!

By: Mark A.M. Kramer

Mark A.M. Kramer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:21:27 +0000

This is a brilliant post. I am impressed with your ability to flabbergast the ticket-agent. It makes total sense that we should be able to share/redistribute our luggage weight allowance we are not using.

Another thing to think about is the weight of people. Why should an overweight person pay the same are someone who is slim?

Go figure!

Kudos! MAMK

By: ChazFrench

ChazFrench — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:49:33 +0000

Dude, I love you! I love that you asked for credit for being underweight, that is so fucking awesome!

As to the liquids rules.. As I was changing planes in Heathrow on the way back from France, there was a woman asking passengers (as they went through their second secuirty screening) if they had any liquids, the woman in front of me looked at her with a confused look, then said no and moved on. When she asked me I didn’t even break my stride “Yes, 100mils one, 1 quart ziplock baggie” and I just kept going…

Stupidity it’s an international commodity.

By: Phil Campbell

Phil Campbell — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:37:18 +0000

make em have it!

By: Documentally

Documentally — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:02:19 +0000

I tried that once.. could do about 100 miles a day. Some continental drivers liked throwing fruit at cyclists heads.

By: MrHunnybun

MrHunnybun — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:23:43 +0000

The logic of airlines is weird. Coming back from America, my luggage was 1kg over the limit, my wife’s 10kg under. So ,on average, we would be under the limit. We pointed this out to the person on the counter, but she insisted that we juggled the contents of our suitcase. Strange.

Following the same logic I think that fat people should have a smaller baggage allowance, or pay more for their tickets. Why shod someone who weighs 100kg more than I do, and spills over into my seat, get the same allowance, or even pay the same for their ticket? It costs more to post a heavy parcel-why not a big fat body?

By: Dean Whitbread

Dean Whitbread — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:53:52 +0000

International cycling is the way forward

By: Documentally

Documentally — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:53:51 +0000

In addition to this.. on the way back my one allocated bag was not listed so after a little fight the guy on the desk said it was not his fault RyanAir had such stupid rules and let me take two on as hand luggage. He told me not to let them see.. I didn’t but security demanded I pay for a plastic bag to put a 100 mil roll on deodorant in. The plastic bag shop was the other side of the airport and the queue was massive.

So i asked the security lady.. “Why do i need a bag for only one item?” She said it was the rules…” I said “So you don’t really know do you?” She said “No.”

As i threw the brand new deodorant in the bin in front of her I respected her honesty.. But not her logic.

The more i look into it, the more I believe the liquids rule to be a farce. The sooner they bin it the quicker we can speed up the whole checking in and ‘passing through’ process..