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jaz 
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 Posted: 20 May 2010 at 8:33pm |
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I hear you Kiwi2. My daughter had a gun pulled on her at LAX when they Xrayed our bags, found our toothbrushes, thought they were knives and asked us to step away from our bags, and she stepped up to her bag and went to pick it up. She was only nine!!!
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kiwi2
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Posted: 20 May 2010 at 9:32pm |
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Jaz that does not surprise me. We had friends. (He was pakastani with full beard and even he says he fits the stereotype) who was flying to the US for a holiday. He had bought some duvets and put them in those vaccum space bags. When they went thru the xray it just showed a mass so they poked thru his bags with a pointy thing. He said "Don't do that or they will explode" Even he says it was a bad choice of words but he got the gun pulled on him and his family (wife and three girls 6 years and under) and spent 5 hours in custody until they sent him and the family on the next plane back home. He then took the kids to paris 3 months later as they wanted to go to disneyland and had to cancel their plans to do the ones in the USA.
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jaz
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Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:46am |
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Yeah, bad choice of words there.
When we came back from LA last time there was no fast tracking for parents as such but I noticed we got through quicker with a toddler than I did two years earlier travelling with my daughter at nine years. This could have been a coincidence though, or better passenger management in LA. We weren't pushed forward in the line and there was no special lines or earlier seating for families the way they do in NZ.
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KatzWtgn
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Posted: 21 May 2010 at 11:42pm |
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Slightly off topic, but have they stopped early seating in NZ as well?
I just flew Air NZ to Christchurch and back alone with my DS (only 6 weeks old), and there wasn't any early seating or other assistance on either flight. I was standing in the queue trying to manage nappy bag, handbag, coat, etc, as well as trying to hold my baby, and there wasn't any offer to let me go first or help with getting down the aisle, seating, etc. It was other passengers who saw me struggling and helped with getting my bag up to the overhead lockers, etc.
Or is this just cause it was domestic?
(Having said that, there was a most wonderful air hostess on the last flight who helped me off the plane, and saw me all the way out to where I was met.)
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Gardengirl
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Posted: 22 May 2010 at 8:01am |
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KatzWtgn, I found the same thing. There was no early seating on my domestic flight from Akl to Chch....but the cabin crew were excellent and got me to stay in my seat afterward and helped me off the flight.
Air NZ seem to be very hit and miss - people seem to have some excellent experiences with them or it can be completely shoddy. Fortunately they have some really good staff, but I definitely won't be using them for long haul again (I promised myself that after my first LH flight with them and then again after I flew them to Perth, so I really should have known better).
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