The new 3-1-1 profit is here. Or in Ireland, anyway. For a euro ($1.47), you get two quart-size plastic bags in a plastic egg.
The retail price for a 1-quart ziptop plastic bag, if bought in bulk, is as low as 8¢. Airports pay a mere fraction of that and give the bags away.
Look at the expense the airport in Cork, Ireland goes to in order to profit from the bags. Elaborate packaging, huge vending machines, multiple instruction placards, packaging waste, and maintenance of the whole setup.
Something from nothing.
Anybody buying?
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It may all be for nothing. If the rumours circulating around in Lufthansa circles at the moment come true, the liquids restriction on board aircraft is about to be eased or lifted altogether.
Apparently, the next big worry is baby powder containers and people who swallow explosives as the person, (who tried to recently assassinate a Saudi prince), supposedly did.
Not to mention ugly, intrusive, and wasteful.
Yep, I was pretty amazed too when I saw those things at Cork airport the last time I traveled from there – so had to take a picture of it too http://www.flickr.com/photos/zisa/3825882400/