Question?: What happened to all the sick bags?
Airline Magazine? Check!
In flight shopping magazine? Check!
Safety card? Check
Sick bag?…………..Sick bag? Anyone Bueller?
So of late, I´ve noticed the lack of sick bags on airplanes. I think its been happening for a while and I just ignored it because I didn´t want to believe (and perhaps because I´ve never used one) but now the naked truth has been thrust in front of my eyes that my paper companion is no more….or nearing extinction. Maybe its just on the airlines I have traveled on; I´m uninformed either way. What do you think about the demise of the sickbag?
September 12th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Haha, the last I went on Malaysian Airlines, I think they’ve disappeared. It’s quite sad really, and I’ve been praying ever since I got back on a plane a few year ago that no one on my row ever needs a barf!
Margie- ingenious idea. XD That must’ve been so hilarious.
I’ll be checking out Air Asia just to see if they have any barf bags. I can’t believe these things are gone! Yes, oil prices are going up, and so are airline prices, but the price of a few hundred barf bags on board for everyone’s peace of mind is surely worth hitching up the price slightly more? XD
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September 16th, 2008 at 5:05 am
So what happens when people feel like throwing up these days?
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September 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I think that these days the throwing up happens when you get the invoice for your fare.
Really, I have not seen a sick bag since the last time an airline offered me real silverware, a cloth napkin, and a tray-table big enough to play solitaire with a standard deck of cards.
For some reason, I cannot use the term “barf bag” without conjuring an image of a paper bag filled with snow. (In Iran, the word for snow is pronounced like barf, much to the amusement of my (then) eight-year-old mind.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Philippine Airlines still has them but their on odd numbered seats.O_o I’ve never had to use one of them in all my years of air travel but it was nice to have them around.
Recently my siblings and I took a flight to Manila and our seat didn’t have any sick bags. Just when we were about to land my sister…well, she threw up.xD
Seeing her like that and smelling the contents of undigested breakfast my brother got a pained expression. In mere moments he threw up as well and I practically jumped out of the way landing in an unoccupied seat.>_< There was a kindly British man behind me who handed a bag my way to give to them (their 7 and
but unfortunately it was already too late.Lol
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October 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 am
Woah, that smiley was supposed to be the number eight.
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October 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I remeber back in the early 80s in VARIG (Brazilian airline) seeing a *plastic* barf bag, does anyone else remember those?
When I was a kid I didn’t know what it was for either. I just thought it was funny they gave you a plastic bag. But they gave me toys and cool pilot badges (does anyone else have those?) so I didn’t really care about a bag. But when I was older and realised what it was for I thought “yuck”.
I noticed that they were missing in the last times I flew too (Air Canada, LAN, TAM), but I just thought “maybe they have improved the pressurization technologies, so people don’t feel as sick anymore”. But apparently cadpig’s sister just proved it’s not the case. Is it just an economical thing? go figure!
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November 5th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
$$$$ Makes the sick bags go around… Good luck getting a drink or snacks too. Pre-pay for luggage you already paid for, confiscate your drinks and snacks (they might be bombs), and good luck trying to entertain yourself.
The aviation industry is broke, bust, and desperate. Fly with local small business if possible. It’s easier on the customs too.
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