Taking a motorcycle helmet as hand luggage on a flight

Happened to an Israeli guy I know, on an El Al flight. Security asked
him to try and smuggle a sword (!!!!!) past the metal detector guys, and
he managed it.

 

To be fair to them, it's a hugely boring job and can you imagine
having to do that day in, day out? What they probably need is shorter
shifts.

I did a fair amount of x-ray work of a roughly similar type of thing
some years ago. Things never quite look the same and if they were to
query everything that looked suspicious (and wasn't), they'd be as
well just doing a hand search of everything.

<suddenly remembers one particularly embarrassing moment, having
luggage searched....>

 

(The Older Gentleman) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7419969.stm

 

Really, call them. Every travel company I've worked for has referred
to them as Charter or Scheduled.

Look! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_flight>

"In the context of mass tourism, charter flights have acquired the
more specific meaning of a flight whose sole function is to transport
holidaymakers to tourist destinations. Such charter flights are
contrasted with scheduled flights, but they do in fact operate to
regular, published schedules. However, tickets are not sold directly
by the charter airline to the passengers, but by holiday companies who
have chartered the flight (sometimes in a consortium with other
companies)."

I don't know what you mean, officer!

 

I see what you mean, EasyJet seem to be a bad example and are an
exception to the rule.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=14861428
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/70050

I've also checked with the head of our aviation team and she says "the
information you have given your friends is correct and a flight with a
3 digit code like EZY and scheduled 2 digit code like BA but EasyJet
is classed as a charter carrier but they operate a bus like service
daily which makes them an exception to the general rule. Charter
services are laid especially for package holidays."

So I am correct in saying TOM, TCX, FCA, MON are charters, as is EZY
but EasyJet are unique in selling their own flights to the great
unwashed which is generally only done by Scheduled charriers.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/brum_airport_shocker/

Birmingham by any chance?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, BGN

Unique?

http://flights.thomson.co.uk/en/index.html

http://www.monarch.co.uk/

Hardly.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

AIUI they don't spend more than an hour or two on the x-ray, then
they'll be rotated to another post. A lot of the other posts won't
mean interacting with the proles.

<waits expectantly>

 

Monarch Sheduled = ZB
Monarch Charter = MON

 

that's about 50000, i think i can safely say everyone's iq is less than that.

 

as bribes go, i think they let you off lightly.

 

well, because you have to throw it away immediately, which means they can
sell you another at the other end.

 

Normally I wouldn't disagree with BGN on matters travel-related, but
in the last fortnight I've flown with LAN Chile and TAM of Brazil.
I've binned my LAN boarding chit, but I've just checked my TAM one and
the flight was coded JJ, so maybe he's right. I was sure it would have
been coded TAM

That said, there are only 676 two-letter combinations and I'd have
thought there are more scheduled airlines than that in the world.

<Blushes>

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, dog

I'd have gotten away with that if it wasn't for this pesky canine.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

They act as a Scheduled airline.

But they do not fly/trade/announce under U2, they use EZY.

BMI fly and trade under BD, and BMI Baby under WW.

I've flown with RyanAir once on business, but I don't think we sell
RyanAir so I don't know what they sell their flights under.

Saga Holidays started using them for some European routes a couple of
years ago, I'm sure others use them too.

 

TAM Linhas Aereas are indeed JJ, LAN Airlines S.A is LA.

26 letters & 10 numbers * 26 letters & 10 numbers = 1,296

 

I'm flying out to Fuerteventura in a week or so on a TCX Thomas Cook
flight. I'll almost certainly be sitting somewhere near the back with
the other people who've booked flights directly with Thomas Cook. The
rest of the plane will be full of people on a Thomas Cook package tour.

How does that that work then?

 

I believe that the whole Low Cost Carrier thing has blurred the edges
of what is a Charter and what is a Scheduled carrier.

 

But they only trade with one.

 

Just checked with one of our aviation ticketers and she says that the
manifests and tickets are printed with EZY and has never seen anything
referring to U2 on a ticket.