It Pays to Wear a Kilt When Flying

**McClef** · 19th May 09, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by BEEDEE

I've flown several times kilted in the past two years. Never been offered a drink from First Class. Which airline should I be using?

Brian

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Neither have I!

**Splash_4** · 19th May 09, 03:34 PM

Dang, neither have I and I just returned kilted from Albuquerque! (Please, no references to the left turn in Albuquerque...

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Well done and a great story!

**Andy** · 19th May 09, 06:20 PM

Guess I may never know since I have NO intention of flying.....anywhere!

**Dan R Porter** · 19th May 09, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by Andy

Guess I may never know since I have NO intention of flying.....anywhere!

Well if your in a plane and your not flying you are probably...CRASHING!

**Carolina Kiltman** · 19th May 09, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by lethearen

A friend of mine worked for TSA and said one of the funniest things he'd heard about was someone with a set of pipes in his luggage. Looking through the x-ray they couldn't figure out what it was. They finally had to have the gentleman remove the pipes (antiques, apparently) so they could see, and he even played a tune for them. That had to be a heckuva wake-up call for all the red-eyers!

A bit off topic here, but back in the 50's a destroyer captain bugged his long-term enemy (something happened between them at the Academy) by coming up on the bridge during the mid-watch (midnight to 4 AM) and playing "Scotland the Brave" for four solid hours whenever their ships were berthed next to each other!

**piperdbh** · 19th May 09, 07:56 PM

That was either a long tape loop or one heck of a 'piper!

I've heard that flying with antique 'pipes with real ivory can be quite a hassle.

**EagleJCS** · 20th May 09, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

I've heard that flying with antique 'pipes with real ivory can be quite a hassle.

Only if you're flying out of the U.S. and back in. (Really, crossing the border - and going through customs - by any method: flying, driving or sailing.) You need a CITES certificate to show that the ivory really is old and not harvested since the ban (in the '60's?).

On topic: Too bad you weren't upgraded to first class - that's the way you were travelling anyway. At least you got some of their booze!

**meinfs** · 24th May 09, 06:59 AM

That's excellent, Frank!

**Streetcar** · 24th May 09, 07:54 AM

Free scotch? I'm put that under the "positive comment" column!

**Brother Falldown** · 24th May 09, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by george7

I haven't flown kilted, but I have flown with bagpipes. Security isn't as gleeful to see bagpipes in the xray (at first) as you described them being toward wearing a kilt.

It never occurred to me that flying Kilted might make the x-ray of the pipe bag less alarming! Used to fly from Arcata, Ca. to Phoenix via San Francisco. Never checked the pipes always took them as carryon and always caused some consternation.
Considering the confined space of an airline cabin, what diabolical weapon could the mind of man conceive more devastating than a stand of Pipes!

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