Here’s a guess at some probable local implications arising from a global event – the recent terror threat on UK-US flights have resulted in severe restrictions on carry-on hand luggage namely: no note-book computers, books, papers, phones, cameras etc will be allowed on board.
QANTAS under the veil of ‘ensuring passenger safety’ move to implement similar restrictions on their flights.
They already have the Commonwealth domestic market out of Canberra stitched up so they have a fair idea that if it will take off anywhere, it will work here where a bucket-load of travel will be undertaken by PS types who’re already buying full-fare flights …
So here’s the rub: you have to check-in your note-book, mobile phone, important papers etc. but QANTAS can in no way guarantee their condition upon arrival at your destination – unless … you pop them into one of their nifty little oyster cases available for the reasonable fee of say $50. Of course you can’t bring your own – they haven’t been ‘authorised’ by the appropriate security people at QANTAS. Naturally if you’re paying the ‘rack rate’ (ie. Commonwealth PS types) the ‘service is thrown in for free … but for the price sensitive private sector that’s always looking to shave a dollar here or there it’ll be pay to play…
So your choice: take the gamble on picking up a workable note-book at the other end or just a bunch of broken bits … or pay the fee. I’d offer to slap $100 on a bar somewhere to the edification of my detractors as punishment for being wrong on this … If I wasn’t so sure about losing the bet.
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