They made us laugh, roll our eyes and some even made us cringe. Wrap up your work week with some of the funniest travel news stories we could find.
1. Scam alert! Qantas fans targeted
A fake Qantas page has fooled some 130,000 people with a fake flight competition.
The page offered fans the chance to win free first-class tickets for the rest of the year, simply by liking and share the competition image.
In less than a day, the post had received some 130,000 likes and 153,000 shares.
However, those with an eye for scams noted the page’s dubious title ‘Qantas Airline’ and punctuation errors throughout the update.
“This is a scam and has nothing to do with Qantas.”
Qantas spokesperson
2. Take your selfie sticks elsewhere
The selfie stick – you either love it or your hate it and unfortunately for travellers, a number of destinations are starting to really hate it.
Popular tourist spots around the world are banning the product, saying it is obnoxious and potentially dangerous.
Among them is the Louvre in France and Versailles as well as Musee d’Orsay, which has banned photography in general.
In Italy, the Colosseum has banned them as a security measure and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington has told travellers they can’t enter with selfie sticks, tripods and monopods.
In Austria, Vienna’s Albertina museum prohibits the product as does the National Portrait Gallery in Britain.
But if you’re still keen to use the selfie stick on holidays, KarryOn is giving away 11 3SIXT Selfie Sticks. Click here to find out how you can be in the running to win.
Know any other destinations opposing the selfie stick? Let us know below.
3. Poo-ey, what’s that stench?
A British Airways flight was reportedly forced to turn around and let people off because of a foul odour coming from an overflowing toilet.
A councillor from Hertfordshire, Abhishek Sachdev said cabin crew attempted to fix the problem, but after an unsuccessful attempt decided to abort the seven-hour flight from London.
According to the councillor, when the plane took off on Thursday everything seemed fine, but about 30 minutes into the flight the Captain made an announcement requesting senior cabin crew.
That’s when the stench took over and the decision was made to turn back around.
Have you ever been stuck on a smelly aircraft?
