Originally Posted by
mamb0
..With proper casing, there is no reason to not give up the equipment you described.
Other than they will bungle it or have it stolen @ beautiful FRA you mean?
I had items destroyed in armoured cases. Once a steel suitcase wit 12kg empty weight was collapsed by a vehicle (judging from the tread across it). LH ZRH initially wanted to brush it off as a "dent".
Originally Posted by
Zurich Flyer
..Changing the seats and giving the old ones back is something I experience from time to time with Swiss (and to a lesser extent with LH)
The oddest one was that I once barely managed to get a seat on ZRH-FRA on a very full flight with a check-in agent making up tons of silly excuses why she could not check me it.
When I climbed aboard and planted myself in the seat, an elderly not-so-gentle-man showed me his BP which displayed the same seat number as mine. I first had a physical struggle with him as I did not want to give him my BP. Then the cheeky purser asked me to vacate the seat. The plane appeared to be full, so I refused. Only when she called the captain and when I wrote down both names, did they budge and offloaded the other pax. That was a close call
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