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Airline barf bags. The anniversary & the movie

Airline barf bags. The anniversary & the movie

05/07/24
No one wants to get sick on an airplane. But if you feel ill, it’s good to know there’s usually an air sickness bag in the seatback pocket. And, as there is for most everything, there are people who are serious about collecting (unused) airline barf bags. This short film includes interviews with some of […]
From the SFO Museum: Matchbooks & Air Sickness Bags

From the SFO Museum: Matchbooks & Air Sickness Bags

05/03/23
The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has more than 150,000 objects related to the history of commercial aviation and to the airline industry. As part of its 52 Objects series this year, they’ve pulled out this matchbook showing the route map for Continental Airlines. Squeezing as much as possible onto a promotional […]

Vintage airline air sickness bags

04/24/10
Reading back through the Delta Air Lines blog this week I noticed an entertaining entry from archives manager Marie Force: an airsickness bag from the mid-1960s that has a gin rummy scoreboard on one side: And an aviation quiz on the other! That led me to visit the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum, of course, […]