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AJDH · Aug 10, 2006

Due to the foiled terrorist plot today, a ban has been placed on hand baggage. I'm en route to the UK from Saudi Arabia, currently in Bahrain. It looks as if I'll have to drive back to Saudi and off load some stuff as I'd planned on bringing my camera and a few lenses home with me. Still I'd rather be safe than sorry. Another alternative is to look for some decent camera luggage here in Bahrain and hope I don't get stung for access baggage. Why does it always happen to me? :C :C

Jos Stratford · Aug 10, 2006

??? Er, I assume this is a temporary measure, yes?

Edit, hadn't heard the news - now see what you're on about, seems Heathrow is basically closed anyhow to all flights not already in the air.

AJDH · Aug 10, 2006

Jos Stratford said:
??? Er, I assume this is a temporary measure, yes?

Edit, hadn't heard the news - now see what you're on about, seems Heathrow is basically closed anyhow to all flights not already in the air.

Yes it's a bit of a nightmare. I don't fly out until Saturday morning so I'm hoping thing may have relaxed a bit by then.

colonelboris · Aug 10, 2006

Glad you said, I'd completely missed the news.
Hope it works out ok for you.

colonelboris · Aug 10, 2006

In case you haven't been able to see it, BBC News 24's coverage has extended to a 15-minute aerial shot of a house where nothing is happening and an interview with a union representative for airport baggage handlers.
Hold the front page...

Andy Bright · Aug 10, 2006

Adrian's plight sprung to mind when I first heard the news this morning. Tough break, and I really think severe hand luggage restrictions will be in place for a long time to come... to many of the public it's a case of 'why do people need so much hand luggage?', so I'm not sure how pressurised the authorities will be to lift the restrictions.

colonelboris · Aug 10, 2006

That's really going to hurt Ryanair customers. They've been moving towards hand-luggage only unless you want to pay nearly the same rate as excess baggage charges.
Shame that, as I like travelling with hand-luggage only and breezing through the airport while everyone else waits for their bags.

Capercaillie71 · Aug 10, 2006

colonelboris said:
In case you haven't been able to see it, BBC News 24's coverage has extended to a 15-minute aerial shot of a house where nothing is happening and an interview with a union representative for airport baggage handlers.
Hold the front page...

I was watching this on BBC breakfast this morning, and while it is a major story (and clearly a major inconvenience to anyone travelling) you really would think that nothing else is happening in the world. Why do the BBC always do this? Whenever there is a 'big story', they seem to wipe everything else off the schedules even though there isn't really much to report. Some terrorists were attempting to blow up some planes. They were arrested. Flights are disrupted. How many live reports and endless live shots of nothing happening do you need?

Sorry, rant over.

Jos Stratford · Aug 10, 2006

Andy Bright said:
... to many of the public it's a case of 'why do people need so much hand luggage?'.

All very well, but given the total lack of care given by baggage handlers, I would not wish to see my optics in their hands

Edward woodwood · Aug 10, 2006

good

anything that gets people sitting down and clearing the isles quicker is fine by me. makes things a whole lot safer too... don't want someone's ten-ton Leica caving my skull in from the overhead compartments.

almost never take a scope abroad anyway

hope it comes in long-term

Tim

colonelboris · Aug 10, 2006

By 6 pm, the BBC will run a report about how these poor suspected terrorists have been oppressed and all they were trying to do was to express their religious freedoms by blowing up aircraft.
I'm starting to wonder where to get news from nowadays. C5 get theirs from Sky, ITV will do the standing up news bit with solemn faces before a 'and in other news, a clown was poked in the eye by some school kids...' and C4 will ask George Galloway's opinion on it before an in-depth report on the ethics of eating organically-produced snails.
I like to read The Times, but the fact that Murdoch owns it makes me feel a bit grubby.

Andy Bright · Aug 10, 2006

Jos Stratford said:
All very well, but given the total lack of care given by baggage handlers, I would not wish to see my optics in their hands

Exactly my point, specialist travellers will suffer but to most of the public it's not a serious issue. Quite a few travel with laptops now, so that may help in getting something sorted for delicate luggage in the future.

Isurus · Aug 10, 2006

Jos Stratford said:
All very well, but given the total lack of care given by baggage handlers, I would not wish to see my optics in their hands

I had a similar reaction with reagrds my u/w camera rig. Safety is of course the number one priority but it makes for tricky choices when you've been told not to check valuables when flying to certain airports.

Dryocopus · Aug 10, 2006

It really is a pain when your optics (bins/scope/camera/lens) cant be with you on flights...bmi have a small luggage compartment for hand luggage if you have to sit in the solo seats going to Inverness....thats ok you can see them loaded and off loaded.

Your right Andy I'm sure the lap top business people will sort this out soon....

Jos Stratford · Aug 10, 2006

Tim Allwood said:
good

anything that gets people sitting down and clearing the isles quicker is fine by me.

Much quicker when people take stuff hand baggage, hence Ryan's moves to encourage people to do so - faster turn round. Just make sure you don't bring your scope next time you head this way

colonelboris · Aug 10, 2006

Jos Stratford said:
Much quicker when people take stuff hand baggage, hence Ryan's moves to encourage people to do so - faster turn round. Just make sure you don't bring your scope next time you head this way

Trying to cash in scope rental?
I think we should be told...

Andy Bright · Aug 10, 2006

Maybe a good time for the makers of flight cases... I've got a hefty silver coffin for my big lens, but I still wouldn't trust that being thrown into the cargo hold.

By and large I think you should be o.k. with a scope/binos in the hold if they are well padded in a suitcase, the holds on the main passenger aircraft are at the same pressure as the cabin, so no blown seals.

Dryocopus · Aug 10, 2006

Well repackaging lessons coming up!!

But worse...list of what you can take on board.....

no books arrrrrrrrrrrrrrggghhhhhhhhhhh

ok if a short flight....but long haul without any books ...help!!

Xenospiza · Aug 10, 2006

Tim Allwood said:
anything that gets people sitting down and clearing the isles quicker is fine by me. makes things a whole lot safer too... don't want someone's ten-ton Leica caving my skull in from the overhead compartments.

almost never take a scope abroad anyway

hope it comes in long-term

Agreed on the first bit. But with the rules they set now, your bins wouldn't be allowed either — pretty bad if they end up in the wrong place!

My scope (a lightweight Leica) was essential this year... not only were the birds distant, but in a group it's a lot easier to show a bird through a scope than by giving directions ("In the tree with the bluish green leaves and the greyish wobbly branches, close by, two thirds up, near that hole in the canopy... no much further to the right" etc. etc.)
And I could also make some pics through it (here one of a bird 300 metres away).

sparrowbirder · Aug 10, 2006

Hand Luggage!!

With regards to todays events at British airports ,just wondering how the banning of hand luggage on planes could effect birding abroad..a distinct possibility this could be made a permanent measure, from a selfish point of view I wouldnt fancy putting expensive optics, cameras and lenses in the hold of an aircraft, a friend of mine went to Canada last week, and managed to blag his "sigmonster" on an internal USA flight, whether he will be able to get it home is another matter...

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