Nicking of Airline Cutlery, glassware and blankets
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Nicking of Airline Cutlery, glassware and blankets
Having never nicked anything from a plane -Over Christmas I was at a friends house they had a kitchen full of nicked tea spoons, cutlery, glasses, mugs, salt and pepper and blankets from a variety of airlines and classes.
I Assume some things are designed to be nicked. Im not sure how they managed to get there hands on a royal dalton plate. Not the easiest thing to stick in your carry on.
anyone have any insider knowledges of how much BA has to top up its cutlery through your the year.
I Assume some things are designed to be nicked. Im not sure how they managed to get there hands on a royal dalton plate. Not the easiest thing to stick in your carry on.
anyone have any insider knowledges of how much BA has to top up its cutlery through your the year.
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Having never nicked anything from a plane -Over Christmas I was at a friends house they had a kitchen full of nicked tea spoons, cutlery, glasses, mugs, salt and pepper and blankets from a variety of airlines and classes.
I Assume some things are designed to be nicked. I’m not sure how they managed to get there hands on a royal dalton plate. Not the easiest thing to stick in your carry on.
Anyone have any insider knowledge of how much BA has to top up it’s cutlery through your the year.
I Assume some things are designed to be nicked. I’m not sure how they managed to get there hands on a royal dalton plate. Not the easiest thing to stick in your carry on.
Anyone have any insider knowledge of how much BA has to top up it’s cutlery through your the year.
There are other threads on FT on this topic
Many collectible airline objects on sale on ebay and like site. How the sellers acquired them is another question
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First class BA: is the short-stem glassware available for purchase?
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I have seen quantities of stuff in Fishs Eddy in NYC and I assume that they buy it up when an airline changes to a new design. They only seem to have a Continental gravy ladle online at present though.
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On a recent BA flight I noticed the cabin crew scooping up and stuffing as much white company bedding as possible into the overhead lockers before landing as though they were gold tokens from the crystal dome.
I noticed a bunch of said bedding listed on eBay the other day and I suppose that's where the rest of the blankets end up....
It would be really interesting to hear the perspective of any BA staff who might have been faced with customers helping themselves to bedding or other such items...!
I noticed a bunch of said bedding listed on eBay the other day and I suppose that's where the rest of the blankets end up....
It would be really interesting to hear the perspective of any BA staff who might have been faced with customers helping themselves to bedding or other such items...!
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I take things like cutlery and the small dishes that nibbles and butter etc come in. I also take glasses. These are souvenirs of the flight.
They must have the airline logo on them to be souvenirs so I have always assumed the airline is happy for this to happen rather like hotel toiletries. No logo, no souvenir!
Glasses are useful to impress ones guests. But the rather small pillows and blankets are really useless in that context.
They must have the airline logo on them to be souvenirs so I have always assumed the airline is happy for this to happen rather like hotel toiletries. No logo, no souvenir!
Glasses are useful to impress ones guests. But the rather small pillows and blankets are really useless in that context.
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For probably two decades, we've had a spoon from Korean Air in the cutlery drawer. I have no idea where it came from. No one in the family as ever flown KE and none of my friends regularly bring spoons to my house. I enjoy occasionally trying to figure out its backstory over a quiet cuppa.
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I took a few glasses from pubs when I was a teenager but quickly grew out of it. I now regard stealing from any company, big or small, as juvenile at best. It causes harm to someone, whether it's the cost passed on to other customers, blame given incorrectly to staff, or short term shortages for other customers.
I don't understand why anyone would think it's funny or clever. If you can afford to fly, you can afford to buy your own stuff. Keep some other firms in business.
I don't understand why anyone would think it's funny or clever. If you can afford to fly, you can afford to buy your own stuff. Keep some other firms in business.
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Here’s a rather extreme example from a few years ago on Singapore Airlines: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ch...flight-cutlery