{"id":393582,"date":"2011-04-13T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/virgin-atlantic-employees-reveal-strangest-check-in-requests\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:04:37","slug":"virgin-atlantic-employees-reveal-strangest-check-in-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/virgin-atlantic-employees-reveal-strangest-check-in-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic Employees Reveal Strangest Check-In Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey of Virgin Atlantic employees reveals some truly bizarre requests from passengers when it comes to checked items on flights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just what kind of items have passengers tried to bring with them? Oh, everything from old bathtubs to bags of sand to entire car engines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strange \u201cpets\u201d like giant tarantulas and even dead cows have also been requested as checked cargo, according to airline employees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur check-in staff see thousands of passengers on a daily basis but every now and then, a passenger will arrive at check-in with something you would never expect,\u201d said Greg Dawson, Virgin Atlantic\u2019s Director of Corporate Communications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline released a similar survey in February which highlighted some of the strangest in-flight questions from passengers. \u201cCan you turn the engines down, they\u2019re too noisy!\u201d claimed the top spot on that list.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/travel\/news\/virgin-atlantic-reveals-the-weirdest-items-passengers-have-tried-to-check-in\/story-e6frg8ro-1226038287147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Australian <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey of Virgin Atlantic employees reveals some truly bizarre requests from passengers when it comes to checked items on flights. &nbsp; Just what kind of items have passengers tried to bring with them? Oh, everything from old bathtubs to bags of sand to entire car engines. &nbsp; Strange \u201cpets\u201d like giant tarantulas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898368,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393582\/revisions\/98898368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}