He certainly talks a lot of them…
One has to feel sorry for the man, actually: he is so appallingly written. By those who don’t know their arse from a keypad.
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Ollie. Who during his years in Italy, seems to have become very nearly as detached from reality as Jill, was waffling to Shula during the week, about the flight attendant insisting the tuppaware box containing Cazza, was put in the overhead luggage rack, rather than travelling on a seat alongside him. Ye gods and little fishes. Who comes up with this nonsensical pap.
Had it been spotted before take-off. The tuppaware would probably have been put in a sealed bag and in the aircraft’s hold.
You can’t have potentially harmful substances carried in the passenger cabin, however twee it seems to the writers.
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In what way are ashes a potentially harmful substance?
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Physically - aerosol inhalation hazard.
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Aerosol?
Try as I might, I really can’t imagine that cremation in Italy is easy to organise,& that they provide Tupperware containers for the ashes. I have visions of a rather floridly decorated urn…
Ashes in England are returned to the family in a large, heavy duty plastic container which looks like a sweetie jar, unless you have asked for ( and paid for) another type of urn/container
To travel with ashes they should be in the (sealed) original container, complete with all the paperwork, which has to be produced on demand.
Ryanair used to allow them as free hand-luggage, Howsumevva, I think that I flew AerLingus when I took my Father back to Ireland last year, from Manchester to Cork, & we were transferred to smaller planes within the same company. They insisted that he was paid for, as part of my luggage allowance
Carinthia.xx
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Microparticles dispersed into the air, should the container become damaged. This can cause various problems to people with lung complaints (who may already be marginal because of low cabin pressure), and can damage various sensitive mechanical and electronic parts.
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Fair enough. It seems unlikely, if the container is in a bag, but hey.
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Who is going to certify that the contents of the tuppaware box, are ex-Cazza and not some potentially harmful powder containing a noxious substance. A possible terrorist weapon there.
You think they have a path-lab at every airport in Italy, set up to examine such powder?
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Who said the tuppaware box was in a bag?
The box would almost certainly have been in a sealed bag if it was carried in the aircraft’s hold. But this was semi-detached Ollie, trying to make his trip seem interesting.
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I used the term Tuppaware, to suggest a container like you describe, Carinthia.
Lots of things which used to travel as carry-on luggage on international airlines, changed/stopped after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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You don’t reckon they would accept the paperwork from the funeral as reasonable evidence about what was in the box with the funeral parlour label on it?
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Not in Italy. You just look at the record of terrorist incidents where passengers joined a flight as it transited Italy. Israel had their own security contingent at Fiumicino and Ciampiano, for years because the security was notoriously poor.
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I reckon that an airline, given the opportunity to make life less pleasant for a passenger, will rarely turn it down.
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Disappointing to hear tonight that Stirling is allegedly ‘mortified’. I was looking forward to the degrundification of Ambridge.
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But you KNEW really, didn’t you !!
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I didn’t hear TA from Tuesday to Friday - too busy talking & supping Pernod
I thought I might catch up with the Minibus this morning
I appear to have dozed through half ovvit, & was fixing the 'Lectric for the remainder
I’m sure I’ll cope… 
Carinthia.xx
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If the source was Shula, she might be being as reliable as she was about him “not grieving properly”…
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I was wondering earlier today whether you’d cause more mayhem by putting a metal flute in hold baggage or producing it for inspection out of your hand baggage. And I was only thinking of yer ordinary sized flute.
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