Carry on about carry-ons
December 2nd 2007 08:06
One of the things that amused my wife – and sometimes irritated her – when were flying, was the way in which people took what amounted to suitcases on board with them. These were basically the same kind of thing as large suitcases; that is, they had wheels, handles that pulled out and so on. But because they fitted the current limits on hand luggage, they could be taken on board. And what’s more, they took a lot more stuff than any of the bags we carried on.
We were tempted to buy one of them at the last minute, in one of the underground shops in Seoul. I doubt that the cases were a name brand, such as Samsonite, but they looked durable enough, and anyway, we only needed the case to get us as far as New Zealand. After that, we weren’t likely to be flying again in a hurry.
We’d thought about buying the case after all the fuss we'd had at Heathrow airport, where the security now insists that a handbag is an extra bag, and can’t be carried as well as any other luggage. Consequently, along with other frustrated people, we had to shove stuff from my wife’s handbag, and my man bag, into our carry-on luggage. A totally absurd situation, because Korean Air, with whom we were flying, weren’t worried in the least about passengers having two lots of carry-on luggage.
Heathrow needs to get its act together, and check what the airlines are doing.
We were tempted to buy one of them at the last minute, in one of the underground shops in Seoul. I doubt that the cases were a name brand, such as Samsonite, but they looked durable enough, and anyway, we only needed the case to get us as far as New Zealand. After that, we weren’t likely to be flying again in a hurry.
We’d thought about buying the case after all the fuss we'd had at Heathrow airport, where the security now insists that a handbag is an extra bag, and can’t be carried as well as any other luggage. Consequently, along with other frustrated people, we had to shove stuff from my wife’s handbag, and my man bag, into our carry-on luggage. A totally absurd situation, because Korean Air, with whom we were flying, weren’t worried in the least about passengers having two lots of carry-on luggage.
Heathrow needs to get its act together, and check what the airlines are doing.
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