Ridiculous carry on baggage

[Glider_]

Saw this on the weekend, VA PER- SYD:


Yes, that's an 8kg bucket of Omo washing powder.



What's the strangest thing you've seen carried on?

 

[Scenicbumblebee]

I once boarded a QF flight from SYD to BNE with a very little baby (very premmie, so still very much smaller than an average newborn at 4 months) - There was already someone sitting in the seat next to my allocated seat with a bassinet, Mr David Gallop (NRL CEO) , he glanced up and then took a double take when he realised (and probably internally cringed) that there was a tiny baby in my arms. Just off the cuff then said, 'Well, that's an interesting piece of hand baggage you've got there', and continued on with reading. Thankfully Baby Bee was very well behaved.

 

[sinophile888]

Not as strange as the Omo, but in the pre Dunkin' Donuts days in Perth, I often saw a box of their produce lying flat in an overhead locker with little (or no room) for actual luggage. And the owners of the donuts were very precious about anyone rearranging the donuts to make a little more room for other peoples carry-on.

 

[love_the_life]

On an internal China flight the people in front of us had a used bucket (similar size to the Omo one) with no lid and half a dozen mandarins in it.

 

[Fifa]

An older couple on a QF domestic J flight last year were carrying a large pumpkin in a Woollies eco bag!
I wondered if it was a gift or if they had grown it themselves :shock:.

 

[PLANT]

America... Comfort dog..... Bloody full size dog! Who ended up sitting next to the nut cases? You got it...
I win happy to receive lounge pass as prize!

 

[Conrad_S]

An older couple on a QF domestic J flight last year were carrying a large pumpkin in a Woollies eco bag!
I wondered if it was a gift or if they had grown it themselves :shock:.

I have travelled on multiple occasions with large home-grown pumpkins in Woolworths green bags. In addition at various times I have travelled with bags of assorted produce, a large Mullaway and a banana plant. Never Omo as I prefer bio-zet.

 

[wazza888]

I remember when Krispy Kreme first opened in Sydney and pax were buying cartons of it taking it onboard.

 

[Hvr]

On an internal China flight the people in front of us had a used bucket (similar size to the Omo one) with no lid and half a dozen mandarins in it.

Cheap way to transport public servants.

 

[CaptJCool]

I remember when Krispy Kreme first opened in Sydney and pax were buying cartons of it taking it onboard.

Tha was me in row 4

 

[meloz]

I shared a Dash 8 cabin with 3 cellos once. Each instrument had its own seat and was accompanied by the artists.

 

[bosox76]

I shared a Dash 8 cabin with 3 cellos once. Each instrument had its own seat and was accompanied by the artists.

That's pretty standard for all cello players of any decent standard. They'll never check in their cellos. Have a friend who's a concert cellist and wherever he flies to perform he gets a J seat and the cello another. Not a bad way to rack up those SC.

 

[Denali]

Seattle to San Fran and a guy had a egg carton full of... eggs?

He carried them on board, sat with them on his lap, walked off the plane and straight out of the airport with no check in luggage. Just him and his egg carton.

I was wandering if the woman had some sort of food item/fruit/veggies in the washed Omo bucket? Never underestimate a migrant mum who wants to pack a "little something" for you to take home. A couple of years ago we had buckets of home grown mangoes all over the house and yes, one was an omo bucket.

 

[24601]

Flight to Barbados from either MIA or JFK, forget which. Lady boards carrying a stack of hats. Some went into overhead. The rest she handed to the stranger next to her to hold - for the whole flight. MIA-BGI different flight the woman seated next to me opened her handbag to munch on a part- eaten cheeseburger she had in there.

 

[bsb]

I carried a small stool back from Helsinki via HKG, I was in J though. 10 years later I still have it.

I also carried a large lamp back from Seoul once, everyone laughed at me on the plane, but it looks good in my house.

 

[ALH]

I carried a huge piñata back from Mexico as hand luggage years ago. I'm sure I couldn't do it no

 

[trooper]

A bunch of us went to the Indonesian Skydiving Convention way back in 89...... it was a cheap package deal with flights (Garuda), accomodation and jumps (out of CASA's, a Transall AND brand new stretched C130s.....) right onto DPS.... different!

I packed my parachute rig in my suitcase.... others didn't.... and some argued at check in they were too valuable to check...

An announcement was made allowing them to be taken as carry on...and Id guess at least 15 guys/gals took advantage of that....:mrgreen::mrgreen:

As it turned out the aircraft was an old DC-10 chartered by Garuda from a US company... wet lease with a US crew....

Departure was delayed as they "had a little trouble closing the aft cargo door"..

You'll understand why I wished at THAT point to have my rig with me.... (not that you could even get out of a commercial jet in flight...)

 

[meloz]

You'll understand why I wished at THAT point to have my rig with me.... (not that you could even get out of a commercial jet in flight...)

D. B. Cooper disagrees!

 

[CaptJCool]

Is that where meal service is a parachute pack ?

 

[CaptJCool]

Turkish Airlines 1992 chickens and cigarettes and no boarding passes....