Taking a motorcycle helmet as hand luggage on a flight

I have a Knox rucksack that has a little mesh helmet bag thingy that
unfolds from the base and stays attached to the main rucksack. That
might be a solution.

 

Not a specific reply.

On boarding - tell them, you have to wear it for religous
reasons.

Once airborne - tell them you have to remove it for
religous reasons. Too close to the Sky Fairy, must
show respect.

No problem.

 

Shove the thing up yer jumper and tell 'em you've got a tapeworm.

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That's what I did when I flew to Pound Island. The only flaw was that
the overhead lockers were too small to take the helmet, so one of the
cabin crew stashed it somewhere separately.

 

Ummm...because some nasty things have happened[1] to aircraft since the
1980s. I suspect you could take a bottle of water onto a flight in the
80s.


[1] Potentially. But will definitely happen again so we're all
doomed![2]
[2] Talking of which, I see 44 people have been confirmed with Swine
Flu, but it barely made the news yesterday. <fx:thinks> Ah, it's only
in Birmingham so doesn't matter.

 

I don't see this as a bad thing. Nobody deems to be dying of it, and
if it does mutate those who've had it in this wave may have built up
some resistance to part of it's genetic code, so maybe won't do so
badly in further waves.

It's only a bit of flu ffs, not the plague.

 

That was my point. And the fact that a couple of weeks back, *one*
person being diagnosed was headline news. Now...

 

hahahaha

you fucking clown.

 

*I* don't.

I'm also sure that removing my belt and shoes doesn't actually do any
good in respect of aircraft safety, but it's not up to me to decide
whether I do it or not.

 

A couple of time to south America. AF & AOM. No probs as cabin baggage.
On one trip where there was no queue going through cabin baggage X-ray I
asked if I could come round the other side and look at the X-ray out of
interest. The guy was a biker himself and said no probs and we ran the
helmet through a second time with it rotated 90 degs.

It didn't tell me anything but it was interesting.

 

Same way as a plastic bottle of Volvic. Very nasty stuff.

 

You might fly off without paying for your ticket.

 

that mesh webbing that predator uses to carry his skull trophies around
could become popular on pikey airlines, you could claim that it wasn't
luggage at all but clothing as it was attached to your body.

 

Conversely, flu doesn't tend to take a large number of people down
during the summer months. When it rears its head again in the winter
things may get a little more interesting.

 

Almost as bad as being next to Verdigris

 

LOL!

 

In what fucking universe are Easyjet described as 'charter'?

 

Flying back from Paris 2 years ago we got an opened, half eaten bar of
toblerone (bought in duty free) taken off us, they were happy to let us
take on an unopened bar though, presumably the thought that we could
open it onboard had escaped them.
Do they just make this crap up on the spot?

This year going to Venice via Heathrow we were told to leave shoes/belts
on going out and then coming back when we had 15 minutes to clear
immigration, go back through security and make the connecting flight
we'd to practically strip off to pass through the same security.

Why can't they decide what they want & put signage up so there's no
faffing about when you get to the random search machine (metal detector)?

This year if we go somewhere hot I'm going through security wearing swim
shorts and a smile, I'll still set off the metal detector though.

 

I had a problem with a rucksack in Knock International Airport once.
Only 'cos it was Army green and looked like it had a rifle in when
x-rayed from a certain angle.