Let me start by confessing to a habit of petty crime. I thieve airline spoons. Well, I don't thieve them on every flight, but whenever I take my first flight with an airline, I souvenir one of their tea spoons. So my collection of tea spoons, bearing the carriers' logos, constitutes a fine record of the airlines on which I have travelled. It all started years ago, when somehow, accidentally, a TAA tea-spoon was present in our kitchen drawer. So when I first flew Ansett, I grabbed one of theirs. And so it has gone on.
The collection now numbers a neat 50. Not bad, but I am sure that many of you will have chalked up more airlines, if not necessarily the spoons to match. On my most recent trip I added two to my collection: Royal Jordanian and Cathay Pacific. And the thought occurred to me that they were an odd pair (apart from being OneWorld partners), in as much as RJ would be, I imagine, a comaprative rarity in most collections, while most people would be amazed that this was the first time I had ever flown with CX, given that this was my 80th international trip. But such was the case.
But even CX would not be the most surprising omission from my collection. I have yet to sample SQ for example, or TG, or KL.
As for the rarities (and I will restrict this just to national flag carriers), gems in my collection include Icelandair and Air Madagascar.
Would you care to share your way-out hits and misses?
Cocitus23.
The collection now numbers a neat 50. Not bad, but I am sure that many of you will have chalked up more airlines, if not necessarily the spoons to match. On my most recent trip I added two to my collection: Royal Jordanian and Cathay Pacific. And the thought occurred to me that they were an odd pair (apart from being OneWorld partners), in as much as RJ would be, I imagine, a comaprative rarity in most collections, while most people would be amazed that this was the first time I had ever flown with CX, given that this was my 80th international trip. But such was the case.
But even CX would not be the most surprising omission from my collection. I have yet to sample SQ for example, or TG, or KL.
As for the rarities (and I will restrict this just to national flag carriers), gems in my collection include Icelandair and Air Madagascar.
Would you care to share your way-out hits and misses?
Cocitus23.