{"id":1401,"date":"2011-07-25T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2011-10-10T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:35:43","slug":"flying-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/2011\/07\/25\/flying-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently working on organizing all of my return flights to get back to Vancouver next month. In the process of this, I&#8217;ve come across some very funny web content that I&#8217;d like to share.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of trying to find out East Africa&#8217;s policies on carry on liquids, I found the FAQ section of Kenya Airway&#8217;s baggage information page.\u00a0 FAQ #7 reads as follows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. What is Kenya Airways policy on carrying dangerous items?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is possible to carry musical instruments in the cabin only if it is within the cabin baggage allowance which is 10Kgs.<\/p>\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t know dangerous items instinctively meant musical instruments, but that&#8217;s cool. I never did find any information on carry on liquids allowances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next, I needed to find out if there was anywhere in the Nairobi Airport that I could have dinner while I had a long layover in between flights. So after a stellar Google search, I found the Kenya Airport Authority&#8217;s website and clicked on the section for Airport Services and Facilities at Nairobi&#8217;s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. There was a long list, so I&#8217;ll share the two golden ones.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing listed was &#8220;Duty Free <em>shots<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnother winner on the list was &#8220;airport<em> loungas<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\nRestaurants were listed somewhere on there too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see you in a few weeks, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently working on organizing all of my return flights to get back to Vancouver next month. In the process of this, I&#8217;ve come across some very funny web content that I&#8217;d like to share. In the process of trying to find out East Africa&#8217;s policies on carry on liquids, I found the FAQ section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,26020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-involvement","category-summer-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}