Still fighting the airlines (and the power)
My ongoing struggle with the airlines of the world CONTINUES, my dear readers. Peep today’s snafu. I was flying from Sydney to Brisbane and as I went to board this anal lady at the gate decided to weigh my carry-ons. Bad news. My carry-ons are always over the limit so I always dread that moment.
The lady at the gate asked me to gate-check some items. I said I simply can’t gate-check my backpack, it’s filled with fragile laptops and equipment. She was really sticking to her guns, so I told them that I couldn’t bring my bags on the plane then I myself wouldn’t get on. I wasn’t being too confrontational either, because that doesn’t solve anything. I tried to explain that I’m a musician and people in Brisbane have bought tickets to come see my concert and I need this fragile equipment on board with me. But she kept talking about how it’s their responsibility to observe the rules and it’s a safety issue and all this crap, and we didn’t get past the “if my bags can’t go then I can’t go” stage. So then it became, “if I can’t go, then my suitcase has to come off”. So they started the procedure of unloading my suitcase. There were other people from Qantas at the gate by then, many of whom actually sympathized with me but they couldn’t confront the anal lady.
They were radioing baggage handlers to go look for my suitcase to take it off the plane, but when they realized how long that would take, while the anal lady was on the jetway talking to god knows who, the other people decided to flip the script and help me get on the plane. They asked if there was ANYTHING I could gate-check. I said my Serato box and my chargers. We put that in a little bag. Then we moved a few items from my backpack to my tote bag so that neither of them was over 7 kg (I actually pulled a wooptie-woop and hid some things while they were weighing the bags), and finally I was allowed to board. This is after single-handedly holding up the flight for a good 15 minutes.
WAY TO ACHIEVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, GUYS. Well, it makes for a good blog though, right?
Tags: airlines
January 8th, 2009 at 6:17 am
indeed, a good blog story to tell!
Hope you have a good time there in Australia?!
grtz
January 8th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
yes it most certainly does.
January 8th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Qantas is the only airline to never have a crash….dont know if thats true but i heard it in the movie Rain Man
January 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
at what point did you notice the lady was ANAL?? you naughty slutty A shagged her later on in the clouds or what?!
January 8th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
my cousin works for QANTAS, bet it was her haha
cant wait til sat night!!
January 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
a treezy..
nice story. most or maybe just a select few of the qantas workers are just massive power trippers. do anything to make u feel crap. sorry u had to encounter that problem. not all australians are like that, hope your having a blast down here!
January 8th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
So true, but i guess if you feeling like taking to the australian way of handling things like that, you just tell the lady (politely) to get fucked and board the plane anyway. The other staff would’ve went from sympathizing with you, to cheering you on.
nobody likes a hater.
have fun in Melbs tonight mate!!!
January 9th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Typical qantas.. yea next time just tell them to get fucked and just hop on the plane. awesome set by the way at southbound
January 9th, 2009 at 2:45 am
What an asspain. But good to know the “If my bags can’t go then I can’t go” worked out eventually! Risky but smart move, holmes.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Buck,the word you’re talking about is ANUL…not ANAL.
A-trak,you should carry a gun so you can just fire a few into the roof when things start to get a bit complicated.then just board the plane as normal.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:13 am
I bet you’d be anal too if you had their paycheck at the end of the month.
I feel sorry for that woman… Things are probably not working out at home too… Glad you got to board that plane though, think you made a lot of people in Brisbane quite happy 
January 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I think you need your own plane.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
My favorite part was when you kept your cool. That’s the best way to be.
January 10th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
shoulda stuck to your guns. Stubborn ppl only realize how stubborn they are when they bump heads with someone else who wont budge. No one wants a stale mate so they always break first.
January 11th, 2009 at 1:51 am
damn you should start your own airline; Macklovitch United….kinda sounds like a football team though…
January 11th, 2009 at 6:39 am
kinda wish you didnt get on.
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and stayed in sydney.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
sydney festival opening night;
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y5feNo2eQOU
http://vimeo.com/2796076
great show as usual mate
January 12th, 2009 at 8:39 am
We live in a world of mindless idiots. I’ve accepted that and anticipate relentless stupidity at every turn. A proactive stance keeps me calm. It’s like being surrounded by 4-year-olds in adult bodies. Anyway, love your work, and you’ll always be welcome at nibootoo, say whoa!
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January 23rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
haha i went through something similar in India on my way back to the states last week. My bag was 2 Kg’s over and dude said i can carry my jacket (which was in my bad) in my hand and i can weight the bag without my laptop. So i removed my serato box and a book or 2 and hid them in my jacket and got through security and simply placed them back in the bag at gate check.
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January 25th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Errr. Don’t you think it’s a bit arrogant that you assume you deserve special treatment? Air safety rules are there for a reason and while you may have been happy to get your way because “people in Brisbane have bought tickets to see my concert”, the reality is that if your overweight bag had fallen out of the overhead cabinets (or stressed them beyond the weight they were designed for), you’d be fucking other peoples’ lives/plans up in other ways. Fuck - if you’re going to tour the world using laptops and heavy equipment, buy some padded/shockproof roadcases and stop being a prima donna about it. You’re not being cool by ‘fighting the power’. Do you really think Qantas give a fuck who you are?
Don’t embarrass yourself, for goodness’ sake. It’s not all about you. You can carry on all you like about this lady being ‘anal’ and negative, but you’re being just as anal and negative by holding everyone else up and insisting that you’re somehow more important than they are; that the rules don’t apply to you.
“They asked if there was ANYTHING I could gate-check. I said my Serato box and my chargers. We put that in a little bag. Then we moved a few items from my backpack to my tote bag so that neither of them was over 7 kg (I actually pulled a wooptie-woop and hid some things while they were weighing the bags), and finally I was allowed to board. This is after single-handedly holding up the flight for a good 15 minutes.”
“WAY TO ACHIEVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, GUYS.”
Actually, it kind of seems that they achieved something. They separated your heavy carry-on baggage into portions that could be considered safe according to the guidelines that have made them the safest airline in the world - but also which are probably standard, across-the-board regulation weights. You must have felt like a bit of a dick, though, finally walking onto the flight with everyone shooting daggers at you.
January 25th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Yeah, I’m with the post above. Seems like you are the arrogant wanka who expects to be able to break international flight rules because you think you’re some “big star” who needs his computer on the flight.
um…you’re a wanka
January 26th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Peep today’s snafu.
January 26th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
This completely dull, badly-articulated and totally unworthy blog entry is a capital example of an emaciated, pathetically bourgeois DJ’s idea of fighting the power. It seems that the sheer lameness of this blog and it’s subject matter is in direct proportion to the authors intelligence. How depressing.
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