She stole my amenity kit!
Mar 24, 2017, 7:45 pm
#47
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I would have told the purser and let him/her deal with it.
The kit contents are back to being useful again. I have a pile of them in my closet, going back over 10 years. I'm still amazed at the really cruddy ones from 5-7 years ago, the mesh zip bag with the tiny tube of Chinese toothpaste and the cheapest pair of socks ever created. I had one of the literally tear in half when I was putting it on. I mean, I know that in the winter the skin on my feet dries out, but never to the point of sheering socks in half.
The kit contents are back to being useful again. I have a pile of them in my closet, going back over 10 years. I'm still amazed at the really cruddy ones from 5-7 years ago, the mesh zip bag with the tiny tube of Chinese toothpaste and the cheapest pair of socks ever created. I had one of the literally tear in half when I was putting it on. I mean, I know that in the winter the skin on my feet dries out, but never to the point of sheering socks in half.
Mar 24, 2017, 9:35 pm
#48
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...http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27169055-post6.html
and
AF
SA
LH http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/lufth...ld-you-do.html
Multiple Airlines - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ess-class.html
and others
Mar 24, 2017, 9:41 pm
#49
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Mar 25, 2017, 3:12 am
#51
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I'm curious to everyone's thoughts on taking unused amenity kits. In the LH thread, the OP mentions a business class cabin that is, at most, half full, so a passenger decides to snag the amenity kits that are at empty seats. Fair or foul?
Mar 25, 2017, 3:26 am
#53
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How in the world would this be considered fair....I would love to hear/read that reasoning!
Mar 25, 2017, 3:59 am
#54
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I watched a guy from business (on a Polaris EWR-SFO 777-300 flight), wander to the mid-back of economy, turn left (I was walking around taking pictures and happened to be behind him), he saw a bunch of stroop waffles laying out, Mr. Sticky Fingers grabbed what looked like 10-15 of them, shoved them into his pockets and kept going.
It was odd to watch, maybe asking for 1 or 2 from a FA would've been an easy ask, but damn man, 15 stroop waffles...
It was odd to watch, maybe asking for 1 or 2 from a FA would've been an easy ask, but damn man, 15 stroop waffles...
Foul, but I don't see a problem with taking amenity kits AFTER the flight when passengers have left them behind.
Mar 25, 2017, 5:19 am
#55
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"About $1" is correct: more precisely $0.7809375/each when you buy 4 boxes (and are a Prime member which includes free shipping).
I am not so sure about that though. You mean as a J or Y passenger? I could not -with a good conscience- take an amenity kit from the J section if I flew Y.
Mar 25, 2017, 8:36 am
#56
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If I leave mine behind (which I do about half the time), I've got no problem if another passenger takes it. In fact, I think I'd rather it be taken by someone who will use it rathr than get recycled or thrown away by UA.
Mar 25, 2017, 8:36 am
#57
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But if it's a kit that sat on a seat that no one occupied, it belongs to the airline.
Mar 25, 2017, 9:40 am
#58
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Mar 25, 2017, 11:43 am
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Mar 25, 2017, 4:23 pm
#60
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Not fair. Another passenger is given a free amenity kit, drops it, it slides down the aisle to my seat. I watch for OP or an FA to look around for it so I can return it but OP doesn't bother. It is an abandoned, unwanted amentity kit worth maybe $5. So yes, I feel it is OK to keep it. I don't want or need somebody else's amenity kit, this is just my comment on the ethics of the situation presented. Different story entirely if it were somebody's Bose headphones or any personal belonging, which should be turned in.