rigpig:
Cancel the flight due to lack of safety equipment quote the applicable air navigation order
Hah! i like your thinking
the thing was he clearly wanted to have it but could be bothered to pay for one himself. as soon as my bag was opened and he clapped his eyes on it my fellow crew member said in my ear "that's gone"..
the result was i did a 180, went out side and cracked it on the kerbside, went back and handed it to him.. he was a little disappointed.
the point is, and i think we are all making the same point here, there is no ryhme or reason to the vagaries of what is and what isnt acceptable.
the claims of safety etc are frankly B/S.. there is enough available in airside shoppng to creat a whole host of impliments.
The Eithiopian Airlines 757 that went in off the comoros islands was hijacked by two parties who used a broken bottle of JD, purchased from Duty Free.