Fascinating stuff from martin
"Martin" a écrit dans le message de
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> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:49:49 -0000, "JohnT"
> wrote:
>
>>"Martin" wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:26:50 +0100, Tom P wrote:
>>>
>>>>erilar wrote:
>>>>> For my sins, I am going to be traveling to and from Sicily soon on
>>>>> this
>>>>> airline I am not familiar with. I have, however, read some bad things
>>>>> about, among other things, their creative handling of checked luggage.
>>>>> I will fly from Chicago and change planes in Rome. I don't check
>>>>> luggage, particularly when changing planes,
>>>>>
>>>>> but
>>>>>
>>>>> I have just been looking at the carry-on rules on their website and it
>>>>> says my carry-on cannot weigh more than 5 kg. I have never heard of
>>>>> such a tiny weight limit. I can't even take a spare pair of shoes? The
>>>>> size limit seems standard.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can find no mention of purses. Is one allowed a purse?
>>>>>
>>>>Their website doesn't mention if you can take a coat or an umbrella
>>>>either.
>>>
>>> I thought Alitalia was bankrupt?
>>
>>
>>They were, but Italian sleight of hand plus Air France/KLM has resurrected
>>them. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7825612.stm
>
> That explains why KLM/Air France are deep in the red again.
>
> If you are bored on an Alitalia flight you can while away the time reading
> the
> dates engraved on the windows. I found one window engraved with 1969 on a
> DC 9.
> Not quite up to the Swiss Air DC9 that still had the original net luggage
> racks.
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>
> Martin
>
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