2 weeks and counting!

By Alison
10 May, 2007
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The girls and I fly out on Saturday 26th, leaving hubby all on his lonesome. I am not particularly looking forward to the joys of 23 hours in transit with two
small girls, but I think i have covered all the bases with entertainment.

Now if only the airline could get our tickets right.

I’ve now got 3 issued e-tickets, one with all three of us on it, but dd2 is a boy, one with dd1 and me on it, and one with dd2 on it. I spent 30 minutes on
the phone yesterday trying to make sure that all the things on ticket one were still confirmed on tickets 2 and 3. (They were not.)

The sales rep told me that child meals are automatically assigned when you book a child seat. I beg to differ – that is what I assumed last time, and my
children had to eat veal convidient. Which they didn’t. No-one mentioned this last time, and I find it ludicrous that I am the one explaining the need to
book child meals to the so called expert. Finally she looks it up and then books them.

So I ask to confirm our baggage allowance. She tells me it’s 32kg each. Even without looking that up, I know it’s wrong. That’s business class.
Economy is 20kg. Unless somewhere along the way I’ve been upgraded. (Unlikely.)

I also asked her what the regulations for liquid in hand luggage is. She tells me to google it. Then she remembers the site – baa.com – I wonder why that was
so difficult to have had that to hand.

I do google though, looking for any other information specifically related to the tightened security so that I don’t turn up with the wrong things in our
hand luggage (they wouldn’t let us have child safety scissors last time, even though the metal ends are flat and plastic wrapped, and they are about as
sharp as a spoon. And technically – according to their list – they were allowed).

And what do I find?

In one breach, which was given prominent media attention, a luggage handler drove across the tarmac at Sydney’s airport wearing a camel costume taken
from a passenger’s luggage.

Sheesh.

I hope we don’t have to sit next to the camel. My daughters are terrified of men in suits!