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Virgin Blue Decides Which Guitars Can Fly Where
We really thought the Richard Branson-led Aussie low cost carrier Virgin Blue would be cooler than it demonstrated this week.
Long-serving Australian musician Steve Lucas - he's not exactly a household name around the world, but his band X have been playing longer than most of us have been alive was doing what he often does, taking a Virgin Blue flight to get down from Sydney to a gig in Melbourne. But then the airline took all of Lucas's luggage off the plane.
It wasn't because one of his three guitars was in a box that looked like a coffin; no, the problem was that one of his guitar straps was decorated with empty bronze bullet cartridges. Lucas landed in Melbourne and discovered that for some reason, all three guitars had been sent to Canberra, and the Virgin Blue complaints line told him he was "potentially a terrorist." Perhaps they know something about the quality of his music that we don't.
Related Stories:
· Virgin On the Ridiculous [The Age]
· Virgin Blue Coverage [Jaunted]
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Be Nice To Your Flight Attendants, Lest They Deem You a Terrorist
There's no shortage of stories about people getting drunk and going nuts on flights these days, but a recent report sheds some light on what happens to these hooligans after they've been frog-marched off the plane by the police. It turns out that the lager lout who peed on the drink cart was actually a terrorist.
