Metal Cutlery on QF - possible is anything

[simongr]

OK - before you egt too excited I dont have the inside track on the ridiculous Oz rules about metal knives - but i think I have found a way around it!!!

I am sat in the JFK F lounge at the moment about to fly JFK-LHR-LCA and am eating from the cheese board using a metal knife. So I think if you flew AA JFK-LXA and connected to a QF flight I could get a metal knife on board.

My thinking is that as you would transit in T4 and there is no need to go back through security at LAX T4 I would not be scanned again.

Hmm perhaps an anonymous email to QF management about this potential gaping flaw in security.....

S

P.s. The flight's delayed...

 

[Dave Noble]

Why would QF care? The lack of metal cutlery on QF is not by QFs choice but due to CASA regulations; the US has, iirc, dropped the silly restriction on metal cutlery

Dave

 

[ColinP]

Rather than an email to Qantas, I think an email to cutlery smuggling expert Rex Hunt is a better idea.
I'm sure he'd be willing to test your theory.

 

[milehighclub]

Why the sudden interest in QF's cutlery today. 2 posts so far!!

As Dave Nobel mentioned QF could care less if you bring on metal cutlery. Not only does CASA not approve metal knifes the UK authorities don't approve the forks, hence why all cutlery to and from the UK is the same design, but in plastic.

 

[mzy]

I am not really fussed whether the cutlery is metal or plastic. I would be more concerned about Amanda Vanstone running around with a box of pencils.

...mzy

 

[simongr]

Why the sudden interest in QF's cutlery today. 2 posts so far!!

As Dave Nobel mentioned QF could care less if you bring on metal cutlery. Not only does CASA not approve metal knifes the UK authorities don't approve the forks, hence why all cutlery to and from the UK is the same design, but in plastic.

Not entirely correct as I just got off a flight JFK-LHR on AA with metal cutlery...

 

[Dave Noble]

Not entirely correct as I just got off a flight JFK-LHR on AA with metal cutlery...

Not surprised. I thought that BA had dropped the metal knife restriction as well as US

Dave

 

[clifford]

I am sat in the JFK F lounge at the moment about to fly JFK-LHR-LCA and am eating from the cheese board using a metal knife. So I think if you flew AA JFK-LXA and connected to a QF flight I could get a metal knife on board.

Larnaca?

I've been looking at it too recently. Good fares to CAI.

Why are you there?

 

[Commuter]

Even the (not so sensible-sounding) UK is more sensible. LHR BA lounges have mental knives, albeit with very short blade.

I see no reason why plastic is more safe than metal, to be honest. Quite non-sensical.

 

[dragonman]

Even the (not so sensible-sounding) UK is more sensible. LHR BA lounges have mental knives, albeit with very short blade.

I see no reason why plastic is more safe than metal, to be honest. Quite non-sensical.

Wow I am staying clear of those knives.

 

[thadocta]

Even the (not so sensible-sounding) UK is more sensible. LHR BA lounges have mental knives, albeit with very short blade.

I see no reason why plastic is more safe than metal, to be honest. Quite non-sensical.

True - and since they are giving out half-bottles of wine to those in steerage, it is patently obvious that a smashed wine bottle is a far more potent weapon than the metal knives they used to serve with meals.

Dave

 

[oz_mark]

True - and since they are giving out half-bottles of wine to those in steerage, it is patently obvious that a smashed wine bottle is a far more potent weapon than the metal knives they used to serve with meals.

Dave

Sometimes those bottles are made of plastic as well (altough usually it is glass)

 

[Commuter]

Wow I am staying clear of those knives.

Oops. Trust me to make a ridiculous typo

Maybe a freudian slip. Metal knife being banned = mental :mrgreen:

 

[simongr]

Larnaca?

I've been looking at it too recently. Good fares to CAI.

Why are you there?

Family live there. Popped in for my mum's birthday.

 

[Dave Noble]

Family live there. Popped in for my mum's birthday.

I go there for the diving Zenobia is a great site

Dave

 

[meloz]

I go there for the diving Zenobia is a great site

Dave

Is this site in Cyprus or Egypt?

Meloz

 

[simongr]

Zenobia is a Roll On Roll Off ferry that sank off the coast of Cyprus - a great dive if you can find someone that know's their way around inside

It's no Thistlegorm but it is pretty special

 

[meloz]

Zenobia is a Roll On Roll Off ferry that sank off the coast of Cyprus - a great dive if you can find someone that know's their way around inside

It's no Thistlegorm but it is pretty special

Many thanks for clarification.

Meloz

 

[Dave Noble]

Zenobia is a Roll On Roll Off ferry that sank off the coast of Cyprus - a great dive if you can find someone that know's their way around inside

Indeed... a most enjoyable wreck to pootle around inside and a nice easy 42m depth

Dave

 

[thegurio]

How the heck did we get from

I am sat in the JFK F lounge at the moment about to fly JFK-LHR-LCA and am eating from the cheese board using a metal knife. So I think if you flew AA JFK-LXA and connected to a QF flight I could get a metal knife on board.

to

Zenobia is a Roll On Roll Off ferry that sank off the coast of Cyprus - a great dive if you can find someone that know's their way around inside

It's no Thistlegorm but it is pretty special

Man you gotta love this site!!! he he he:mrgreen: