Headset Collection

[ludoh]

Really an un-important question but yet something I can not figure out - Why are headsets collected on international flights prior to landing and not on domestic flights (at least my experience on Qantas SYD-AKL for the last 10 times). I use my own NC headset so no issue as such but seems weird not to let travellers enjoy the music until they leave the plane.

 

[oz_mark]

Really an un-important question but yet something I can not figure out - Why are headsets collected on international flights prior to landing and not on domestic flights (at least my experience on Qantas SYD-AKL for the last 10 times). I use my own NC headset so no issue as such but seems weird not to let travellers enjoy the music until they leave the plane.

On PER-MEL and PER-SYD it depends which aircraft you are on. On 737's they don't collect the headsets, on 747's they do collect the headsets.

 

[ludoh]

My domestic trips are mainly SYD-MEL and SYD-BNE but even on the 767 SYD-MEL they don't collect the headsets where on the 767 SYD-AKL they do.

 

[serfty]

I've noticed this too and wondered; perhaps Internation losses are generally > those for domestic. Not that QF NZ collects headsets as well on their domestic flights.

 

[moa999]

Although why you'd want to nick a cheap $2 headset with a two pronged stereo adapter I dont know

 

[simongr]

Probably the same reason I have a bag full of soaps from Hilton hotels

The whole headset thing really amuses me - I don't know when I last used the cheap $2 headsets - usually use my own. I do use the noise cancelling sets on AA in F though

 

[Therma]

Probably the same reason I have a bag full of soaps from Hilton hotels

The whole headset thing really amuses me - I don't know when I last used the cheap $2 headsets - usually use my own. I do use the noise cancelling sets on AA in F though

Hey don't knock the Hilton soaps, or their shower gels! You can never get too much of a good thing (if they are the Crabtree & Evelyn): you next stay may be at Happy Memsahib's Palace (or Holiday Inn!) with paintstripper toiletries. We should start the favourite hotel toiletries thread!

As for the airline headphones, there are some airlines that have regular bud earphones you can take (Air France, Kingfisher, Indian), but as you said, why would you. I do not leave home without my Sennheisers. This way while others are reading the subtitles for the last part of the movie I am still listening

 

[NM]

Given that the headphone collection on international flights generally starts about 30 mins prior to landing, it would be a significant portion of a 1 hour SYD-MEL flight without any audio.

I wonder what the loss rate is with QF's headphones, and in particular the breakdown between the business class NC headphones and the cheapie economy excuses.