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Old Oct 6, 2018 | 7:01 pm
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Banana4321
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
The routes which are prone to life jacket theft are the yachting/sailing routes, so NCE, AGP, PMI, Greece and what not. Plus groups of school kids. I think I've had 3 missing seat jackets over the last decade, which isn't a high percentage - there again in extremis I wouldn't be too reassured to know my predicament was statistically irrelevant. Previous discussion of this here:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...k-thereof.html

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...your-seat.html
I used to travel with a spanish national on Iberia quite a lot. You'd be VERY surprised at how often she found her lifejacket wasn't there (and mine). The laissez-faire/maņana attitude at the crew was alarming.

Nowadays, I just ignore the issue on a risk-acceptance criteria.
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