Nau MaiYesterday we flew to Sydney and played a show at the Roundhouse. Brisbane Airport was determined to punish us yesterday morning. We arrived at the dropoff at 8am and I left everyone to shuttle the baggage inside, driving off in the rental car to fuel up and return it. It was a good half hour before I was back at the terminal and I was decidedly worried to find everyone at the oversize/group check-in area with a pile of equipment cases that should have already been on their way to the aircraft. The classic punish at Brisbane Airport is the explosives material testing station. There is always a determined airport employee at oversize check-in who makes you open every single case, swabbing the inside with a plastic wand to take a sample back to his testing machine which can in mere seconds determine the presence of chemicals contained within explosives. This usually adds another fifteen minutes and a fair bit of extra baggage handling to your morning. Yesterday the situation was…
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