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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 4:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Marco Polo
How service can be important when you are leaving at midnight with the intent to sleep is hardly relevant and the narrow CX coffin seats in J are not suitable for family travel unless you are all 7' basketball players in order to see each other.
On principle I will not fly Qantas now that they have stooped to selling a 'legal' product on board - cigarettes - I would not like my children to see that. A retrograde step for a oneworld airline.
Many airlines sell cigarettes in their duty free selection. BA certainly does (or at least did so a few months back as I purchased some for a friend). Does this mean you will also be banning BA? AY also sell cigarettes. Sadly I don't recall CX selling them recently but it would certainly not surprise me if they did.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 5:48 pm
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Originally Posted by Traveloguy
... I don't recall CX selling them recently but it would certainly not surprise me if they did.
CX do sell tobacco products:
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 6:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Marco Polo
On principle I will not fly Qantas now that they have stooped to selling a 'legal' product on board - cigarettes - I would not like my children to see that. A retrograde step for a oneworld airline.

I think you will find that all the Oneworld airlines sell tobacco of some sort duty free. QF was the exception to the rule.

AA, BA, RJ, CX, JL, AY to namke a few all do.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 6:59 pm
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Originally Posted by Marco Polo
On principle I will not fly Qantas now that they have stooped to selling a 'legal' product on board
Would you rather that they sold illegal products?

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Old Jul 17, 2008 | 1:04 am
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Oh come on. It was a funny argument.
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Old Jul 17, 2008 | 1:47 pm
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Originally Posted by Marco Polo
On principle I will not fly Qantas now that they have stooped to selling a 'legal' product on board - cigarettes - I would not like my children to see that. A retrograde step for a oneworld airline.
This has to be the funniest post I've seen on FT for a long time :lol:

I wonder where you keep your children to prevent them from seeing cigarettes...
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