Spice bar at Melbourne Qantas Domestic Business Lounge

[Beano]

Not just in the lounges, I have eaten in a couple of public restaurants in the past few days, and all the knives needed a run thru the sharpener...

I think it goes beyond just dull. I think they have been deliberately ground down. You can see a flat surface along the edge.

But you know what they say about the secret of a good steakhouse---sharp knives.

 

[Berlin]

I think it goes beyond just dull. I think they have been deliberately ground down. You can see a flat surface along the edge.

Maybe it’s a security thing that they’re not talking about publicly? I always wonder how they take away water bottles but anyone can just take knives from the lounge (or glass shards and more) straight onto an airplane without any further checks (unless in an airport like Singapore with the check right at the gate- in my eyes generally safer to avoid issues like that).

 

[Beano]

Maybe it’s a security thing that they’re not talking about publicly? I always wonder how they take away water bottles but anyone can just take knives from the lounge (or glass shards and more) straight onto an airplane without any further checks (unless in an airport like Singapore with the check right at the gate- in my eyes generally safer to avoid issues like that).

It had crossed my mind. The plastic knives are sharper.

 

[RichardMEL]

I too thought of security. After all with oddles of knives sitting out and no gate security.. very easy to take on an aircraft and cause mischief

 

[openseat]

To continue the tangent re knives and other sharp things:

It shows that airport security is basically a performative act.

 

[Daver6]

The lounge knives are the same ones as on the aircraft from memory.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Seeing we are on the subject of food, have you noticed that the knives in the lounges are blunt. Not just blunt but almost as if the edges had been ground flat. They won't even cut the beetroot slices!

Maybe a safety consideration?

 

[serfty]

Maybe a safety consideration?

I suspect that as long as they can cut Lion's Head Meat balls then there is no issue ...

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Seeing we are on the subject of food, have you noticed that the knives in the lounges are blunt. Not just blunt but almost as if the edges had been ground flat. They won't even cut the beetroot slices!

Heh heh heh, of course there is a reason why.
I think I cant say the reason, but seriously, we all know why.
Years ago, it was all the go to take things off planes, teaspoons etc, as a souvenir of the flight.
My parents took an AirNZ tea spoon off a flight once, think they still have that tea spoon floating around somewhere.

 

[jukebox333]

Heh heh heh, of course there is a reason why.
I think I cant say the reason, but seriously, we all know why.
Years ago, it was all the go to take things off planes, teaspoons etc, as a souvenir of the flight.
My parents took an AirNZ tea spoon off a flight once, think they still have that tea spoon floating around somewhere.

You're not suggesting us Aussies are a bunch of itinerant theives who will pilfer anything that isn't locked down as part of our birthright, are you?

 

[RichardMEL]

Wel at least we haven't (yet) descended to filling ziplock bags full of cheese or cereal as has been reported recently from the US....



But yes, yet another reason we can't have nuce things.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Yair, lucky its not Aus as yet, where we do it (those things) en masse.
Think it was/(was it) SQ/CX, where someone nearly succeeded in taking the inflight safety card off the plane.
Truth be told I am sure somewhere, that there would be people who take those as "souvenirs".

 

[Beano]

For my work I carry a 150 mm steel rule, and it gets through security. It has a narrower edge than the knives.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Aussiesare a bunch of itinerant theives who will pilfer anything that isn't locked down as part of our birthright,

You have characterised us quite accurately - Waltzing Matilda was about a bloke knocking off sheep; after all, it is considered our unofficial anthem.

Think it was/(was it) SQ/CX, where someone nearly succeeded in taking the inflight safety card off the plane.

Thats is nothing; I have heard of some taking life vests.

For my work I carry a 150 mm steel rule, and it gets through security. It has a narrower edge than the knives.

I have alerted the authorities.

 

[RichardMEL]

Thats is nothing; I have heard of some taking life vests.

I was on an AN A320 into PER many moons back. I was visuting the coughpit (I did mention MANY moons!) and one of the FA's came in asking them to radio ahead to let maintenance know that someone had seemingly stolen a... tray table.

The crew weee just as bemused as I was.

 

[Beano]

Yair, lucky its not Aus as yet, where we do it (those things) en masse.
Think it was/(was it) SQ/CX, where someone nearly succeeded in taking the inflight safety card off the plane.
Truth be told I am sure somewhere, that there would be people who take those as "souvenirs".

You have characterised us quite accurately - Waltzing Matilda was about a bloke knocking off sheep; after all, it is considered our unofficial anthem.



Thats is nothing; I have heard of some taking life vests.



I have alerted the authorities.

They see it every time. Occasionally they take a good look. Every major and a few minor airports in Australia and New Zealand.

 

[Beano]

Heh heh heh, of course there is a reason why.
I think I cant say the reason, but seriously, we all know why.
Years ago, it was all the go to take things off planes, teaspoons etc, as a souvenir of the flight.
My parents took an AirNZ tea spoon off a flight once, think they still have that tea spoon floating around somewhere.

Isn't there an AFF thread on this? I remember reading that some lounge visitor took a whole bottle of wine away with them. Not in Australia.

 

[Sprucegoose]

I was on an AN A320 into PER many moons back. I was visuting the coughpit (I did mention MANY moons!) and one of the FA's came in asking them to radio ahead to let maintenance know that someone had seemingly stolen a... tray table.

The crew weee just as bemused as I was.

It was a Perth flight, but it does beggar belief that any ordinary mortal would do this!

They see it every time. Occasionally they take a good look. Every major and a few minor airports in Australia and New Zealand.

I agree with you it's a (potentially) dangerous object in the wrong hands - more so than a knitting needle or a pair of scissors

 

[Beano]

It was a Perth flight, but it does beggar belief that any ordinary mortal would do this!


I agree with you it's a (potentially) dangerous object in the wrong hands - more so than a knitting needle or a pair of scissors

Airport security are happy with it.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Yair, it could have been life vest?
Cant remember exactly now.
But unless an alarm sounds when one is removed, crew would not really know.
You know on buses, they have that red break glass tool, it has a little wire next to it.
One time, on an Adelaidemetro bus, some twit took it off its holder, and wow, the alarm was indeed very loud.