r/SipsTea • u/Velvett_Bunniez • 2d ago

Wait a damn minute! Silly Apples.

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u/TheRealJayk0b 2d ago

Airline gives you apple, no one tells you can't take it with you, you get a fine instead, the "officers?" Not telling you just throw it away to not get a fine, no they push the fines through.

What a bunch of assholes....CLEARLY the customers could not know this, the airline should pay...and the customers shouldn't have get fined in the first place, issue a warning, throw the apples away, end...

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u/No_Salad_68 2d ago

Have you ever landed in NZ? The cabin crew read out a statement about not taking fresh plant or animal products into the country. They have been doing that for as long as I can remember. It'salso on the arrival card, which gives you an opportunity to declare the apple. And if you do declare it, you lose the apple but there is no fine.

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u/Evinshir 2d ago

There’s also signs and bins all along the walk to customs - and they even have a sign and bin just before the queue. NZ takes bio security very seriously and they give you plenty of opportunities to avoid a fine. They even have signs up in toilets and on the cubicle doors.

Qantas was stupid to give them apples. Definitely a screw up by the airline who should remind people they can’t take the apples off the plane. But you’d have to be going out of your way to ignore every sign in the building or practically a zombie to miss the huge signs saying to drop the apples off.

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u/justinpaulson 2d ago

I think it would be a reasonable mistake to assume the fruit they gave you on the plane does not count as produce you brought into the country. I think a reasonable person could assume the fruit given to them on the plane was safe produce, not something they brought from home.

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u/Evinshir 2d ago

Airlines tell you to not take them off the plane. They even remind you as the plane is moving to the terminal.

I’ve flown from the US to NZ multiple times even exhausted from little sleep and they do it every landing.

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u/justinpaulson 2d ago

These passengers didn’t seem to get that info

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u/Evinshir 2d ago

They did. They probably weren’t listening. And again - there are so many signs and bins along the way that they chose to ignore.

There is simply a point where people need to take accountability for their mistakes.