No more UK flights for CJ

[cjsmith]

I'll get on a transatlantic plane without carry-on luggage when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

(Or when they pay me the full replacement price of my checked luggage when I board. On the unlikely chance I ever see it again, and on time too, I'll gladly refund the money... minus a modest handling charge. AND they must have at least three decent full-length novels in the passenger cabin for me, as that's how many I'll need.)

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[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Not to mention business travelers (or square dance callers) without carry-on lap tops. Yeah, right, we'll check that for your oh-so-careful luggage handlers...

(Could be the end of the commercial airline industry as we know it...)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Ben Franklin is probably doing about 2,000 RPM in his grave about now. Sound bite of Dubya's I heard on the way home from lunch: "We're still not completely safe." Um, dude, we're never going to be completely safe.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's the sort of thing that makes me want to smack around a bunch of sheeple just on general principle.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ayep - full replacement price and that includes the data!

I wonder if it could mean the birth of a new industry, as people coordinate FedEx drop off and pick up with their flights. "747 heavy, flight of two" -- one with the pax and one with the cargo!

I like the fly naked idea.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I hope it doesn't spread to the US.

Alan wouldn't make a flight to California which I'd like to do next year.

Guess we'll stick to road (car) trips for a while.

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

*sighs* My mother in law is flying here, this Sunday. Blech! Fortunately she has a good attitude about it, but geez!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I feel for her! I hope she has a few good books memorized!

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

I guess it's a good thing I didn't take advantage of any of the amazing fares to London that I saw earlier this summer, in order to go visit my sister. I wonder if I'll ever see her again?

*sigh*

Idiots.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I hope it doesn't too, but I'm not banking on it. The US is very fond of expensive and annoying security restrictions.

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

lol ... yeah ... I guess it's movies and chatting up your neighbors for entertainment!

The no water bottle would make me NUTS though!

I wonder if you can bring an EMPTY bottle, and have them fill it on the plane.

Just ... blech!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My guess is they (the airlines) will get over it, at least to the extent of allowing books and a bottle of water again. But it'll be no fun for the next six months or a year.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If movies and chatting up your neighbors is the best I can hope for, I would rather be sedated. (Come to think of it, that might be a win anyway. Some people I don't even want to SMELL for ten hours. It might help with jet lag, too.)

And boy do I agree about the water bottle.

[sharya.livejournal.com]

What??? They won't let you take a carry-on?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, recent events. Here is one news story.

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that: sheeple. Consider it swiped (likely yet again)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

some people i especially don't want to smell for ten hours :)

[allanh.livejournal.com]

This seems to apply only to flights in and out of Great Britain.

Since I'm a United frequent flyer ... if I were going to Europe, this would be a good excuse to take a United or Lufthansa code-share flight through Frankfurt ... or perhaps enter and leave Europe through Copenhagen or Paris.

(Oooh...Paris. That's a great excuse to take the Chunnel train to London!)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The TSA announcement that I saw says only no liquids, gels or creams.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Never mind. This is something the British are implementing on their end.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I swiped it from disaster-preparedness geeks.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Word. The guy with exceptional BO who also turned out to be incontinent (likely due to excessive alcohol, as he was not, shall we say, prepared for incontinence)... that was a bad, bad flight.

[hot-turkey.livejournal.com]

This completely screws us, because we have, up until now, tried very hard to fly without checked baggage. Never again, it appears.

I'm in favor of implementing the security technique illustrated in The Fifth Element, where they just knock you out before takeoff, and you wake up at your destination..... :-P

[chiefted]

Hmmmmmm. Amtrak at Christmas time to the East Coast is sounding better and better even though its a combined 6 extra days out and back if I go by rail.

and Ya they can have my MacBook Pro and iPod when they pry them from my cold dead hands cause I am not getting on a 5 hour flight without entertainment plus like I would trust the "ramp apes" with those things.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, only the UK so far. I am hoping it doesn't spread, but it may well.

The Chunnel! I seriously want to take that train some day.