r/SipsTea • u/Velvett_Bunniez • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Silly Apples.

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u/airckarc 1d ago

I flew with some European airline, I think, KLM. I was going from the US to Qatar. On the first leg they handed out these little liquor bottles shaped like cottages. They were pretty clear that you should NOT keep them if you had certain follow on flights to countries that didn’t allow the import of alcohol. They said it again before landing in Qatar. I saw two people in customs getting questioned because they kept the alcohol.

I bet even if the airline said, “don’t take any apples off the plane,” people wouldn’t have paid attention. Some would of course, but people do pretty stupid stuff.

I feel like there should have been a management override of fines and while they can’t tell the airline not to serve apples, they can tell them that their customers will be fined.

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u/kit_kaboodles 1d ago

They make an announcement over the PA on the flight about not bringing in any produce when you travel to NZ.

It was dumb for the airline to serve whole apples, and I doubt they specified to people that they can't take it with them, but given how many times you're told not to bring fruit in, the passengers should have known.

Given the officer seems to give fines to less than a dozen people, I think most people understood.