Qantas clowns around with luggage

[NM]

From news.com.au:

QANTAS dumped most of the baggage from a flight between Darwin and Sydney to cut the weight of the plane, except for that belonging to a clown.

Frustrated passengers didn't know their luggage had been left at Darwin Airport until they arrived in Sydney.

 

[Blackadder]

Seems strange that the luggage would make the plane to heavy to land, surely there is something else to this not being mentioned by the Daily Terror

 

[Slats7]

Hmm seems a bit odd.

 

[dede]

From news.com.au:


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QANTAS dumped most of the baggage from a flight between Darwin and Sydney to cut the weight of the plane, except for that belonging to a clown.

Frustrated passengers didn't know their luggage had been left at Darwin Airport until they arrived in Sydney.

Yes, those tiny cars and buckets of confetti are really quite light. I don't think the big shoes made it though.

 

[mannej]

This is nothing new. Qantas have done this many a time before, the only reason this is news-worthy is the irony that the clown's bag made the treck where as the others had not.

P.S it sucks when your bag does not arrive home, QF don't even care (well apart from the courier) about those cases.:evil:

 

[Slats7]

This is nothing new. Qantas have done this many a time before, the only reason this is news-worthy is the irony that the clown's bag made the treck where as the others had not.

P.S it sucks when your bag does not arrive home, QF don't even care (well apart from the courier) about those cases.:evil:

The media love to try and bring Qantas down as well.

 

[Walter Plinge]

The media love to try and bring Qantas down as well.

Exactly. There's more to this than got in the paper. Unless there were a plane-load of obvious fatties I suggest a snap strike of baggage handlers.

 

[NM]

Exactly. There's more to this than got in the paper. Unless there were a plane-load of obvious fatties I suggest a snap strike of baggage handlers.

Or perhaps a significant amount of contracted freight that would have incurred penalties if not delivered on that flight?

Strange no mention yet of clowns wearing camel suits

 

[v8Statesman]

Maybe the Clown was the only WP with J tags on the luggage

 

[Slats7]

Maybe the Clown was the only WP with J tags on the luggage

Haha that might be the case

 

[drron]

Maybe the Clown was the only WP with J tags on the luggage

No our darling baggage handlers would leave that one behind!

 

[NM]

No our darling baggage handlers would leave that one behind!

Perhaps the clown was the only one without a Priority tag?

 

[drron]

Perhaps the clown was the only one without a Priority tag?

Now that i can believe!

 

[v8Statesman]

Perhaps the clown was the only one without a Priority tag?

Isn't that what I just said:?::shock:

 

[dede]

I think this is the clown!
How do you spell FRAGILE - HANDLE WITH CARE!

This was taken at Adelaide airport!

YouTube - Qantas baggage handler

 

[odysseus]

Strange no mention yet of clowns wearing camel suits

Or that's the reason; they didn't want the bad PR if the handlers got to muck around with that lying around...

 

[Mal]

YouTube - Qantas baggage handler

I call BS on this. How is a grainy phone taken video that never shows a box or bag marked "fragile" or proven to be at Adelaide supposed to be proof that Qantas or AAE mishandle luggage?

 

[dede]

I was joking about the FRAGILE bit, but it WAS taken at Adelaide on a mileage run I did a couple of months ago.

 

[NM]

I call BS on this. How is a grainy phone taken video that never shows a box or bag marked "fragile" or proven to be at Adelaide supposed to be proof that Qantas or AAE mishandle luggage?

And I see nothing wrong with the way those boxes were being handled. If the owner cannot package their goods to survive that sort of treatment then they should not be freighting the boxes. I am sure there are way bigger accidental drops than those shown on the video.

 

[codash1099]

I call BS on this. How is a grainy phone taken video that never shows a box or bag marked "fragile" or proven to be at Adelaide supposed to be proof that Qantas or AAE mishandle luggage?

and how did the sound of the boxes hitting the belt get picked up by a phone inside the A/C?