Here's one to put a chill down the spine of any
vegetarian: A passenger on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Wellington found a live frog
in her salad! According to a New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry Quarantine Service spokesman, the woman quickly put the lid
back on her meal to stop the frog from escaping.
The Qantas crew notified the ministry while the plane
was still in the air and Quarantine Service staff were waiting when it
landed at Wellington Airport. The four-centimetre native Australian
whistling tree frog was taken from the plane and put in a freezer.
A Qantas spokesman said that since the incident the
airline had changed its lettuce supplier and introduced "additional
procedures into the salad supply process".
The Advertiser reports that security screening at Darwin
Airport failed to detect a large knife a woman was carrying unknowingly
in her handbag. The Adelaide woman, who wishes to remain
anonymous, described the knife as "a serious-looking instrument". The
woman alleges she found the knife - which she had used during her
holiday in Kakadu National Park - in her bag about an hour into her
return Qantas flight to Adelaide.
Qantas spokeswoman Jodie Taylor said the airline was
taking the claim "extremely seriously" and would raise the issue with
Darwin airport officials.
John Travolta is returning to Australia on another tour
of duty as a flying ambassador for Qantas.
A Qantas spokesman said Travolta was visiting Australia
for a week to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Qantas
trans-Pacific flight.
Selected Qantas Frequent Flyers have been invited to
a $500 black tie fundraising
dinner with John Travolta.
In a situation all to familiar to Australians, hundreds
of passengers were stranded when their airline went into administration.
Based in Birmingham and Edinburgh with a staff of 300, Duo cancelled all flights after it went into administration, blaming poor trading and insufficient investment.
The move left between 750 and 1,000 travellers having to find other means of leaving the European airports served by the carrier.
A cat that flew its way across the United States for nearly three weeks has flown home to its owners in Germany.
Evidently,
Billy the cat escaped from its box in the hold of the plane when his owners flew from Phoenix
to Philadelphia. Undetected in the hold, the black-and-white cat missed the family's connecting flight to Munich and was found 18 days later by airline mechanics in Manchester, New Hampshire.
"The airline must be mouse-free by now," the relieved
owner said as she and the family were reunited with Billy at Munich airport.
|