One person was kicked off the flight because they tried to use a popular packing trick to get away with it.
At Orlando International Airport, someone eager to fly thought they could hack the system and showed up to his flight with a pillowcase. To get around the airline’s carry-on rules, the man put his things on the thin sheet and said it was a pillow.
On TikTok, user @natashaorganic recorded the conversation between the person with the ticket and the flight staff. She wrote down what they were saying until the airport cops arrived and led him away from the gate.
In the beginning, the man in the white beanie and black backpack is seen talking to a flight worker in an orange safety vest. It’s hard to understand what they said because their sounds are muffled.
The TikTok user said, “Stop letting these social media sites give you tips and tricks because sometimes it won’t work.” “This guy was trying to bring in a pillowcase full of clothes and other things, which he says is just a pillowcase.”
It was clear to Natasha that the traveler wasn’t just bringing a pillowcase or a regular pillow. The man was also given the chance to pay the right amount for an extra carry-on, but he turned it down. There is a part of the video where the man says he’s willing to pay, though. It’s too bad it was too late.
According to Natasha, “he didn’t say ‘Okay, I’ll pay for it now’ until they shut the doors.” “After that, he tried to bogart his way into the, I don’t know, thing that comes before you get on the plane.”
“And they were like, ‘Bro, back off,'” she said. You didn’t have to pay for the chance we gave you. And in the end, they called the police on him. He had to be led out of the building.
At the end of her story, Natasha told the watchers to “stop listening to the internet.” She said that the passenger getting kicked out of the airport was because he believed in a travel trick he saw online.
A few months before this happened, the pillowcase hack went viral on TikTok, telling people to pack clothes inside the sheet to escape having to pay a carry-on fee.
Anonymous Reddit users told others not to try the trick because they knew people who had tried it and failed.
“I’m not sure.” “The gate ladies at SFO told us to put our pillows in our bags,” one person admitted. “I think budget airlines think of a pillow as a personal item,” said a third. I agree that the tried-and-true way is to wear a lot of clothes and stuff things into your jacket.
Source: Independent
