Welcome to the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum!

Museum currently exhibits 3161 unique bags.

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Donations and Swaps

As a collector of Air Sickness Bags. I am interested in obtaining new specimens. If you happen to encounter any kind of sickness bag, would you kindly send me one (unless it's plain white)? Here's the "corporate" address:

Steve Silberberg
9 Third St.
Hull, MA 02045
USA

Actually, airlines change their bags every few years, so if you ever notice a change, please snatch that bag and send it to me! I would be very grateful for any help you might provide. Many thanks in advance.

Bouraq Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Paul Mundy
Print or Image Color: White and Green
Background / Bag Color: White and Green
Much like its predecessor, except that it's made of translucent plastic. Disgustingly, the twist tie is affixed INSIDE THE BAG. Therefore, if you use the bag for its intended purpose, you have to stick your hand in the bag to retrieve the twist tie.

Canadian Generic DRG Packaging

Received From: Jo Boyd
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
One of an abundance of similar Canadian generic bags. As if they had every single bag manufacturer make one of this design.

CAAC

Approximate Vintage: 1985
Received From: Alan Laves
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Tex and two of his friends were the coolest people in China when they put on their sunglasses. No CLEAN BAG text.

British Caledonian

Approximate Vintage: 1987
Received From: Stan Baumwald
Paid $2.25 + $1 postage for this one on eBay. There are holes punched in it, as if it were in a 3 ring binder. Therefore, I must warn you: Bag is for display purposes only! And why do the British always have to put the name "British" in their airline names? You'd think we had forgotten that they invented radar or something.

The bag that now resides in the museum is a better (non hold punched) version of original bag.

CSA (Czech Airlines)

Approximate Vintage: 1992
Received From: Mike Roselle
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I love this crazy bag! Logos going every which way in an ordered chaos. Reminiscent of really cool bathroom tile. Conspiracy theorists might be able to see a Swastika in the design of the bag. Just look at any 2x2 square and you can see it.

Silk Air

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Xusheng Chen
Print or Image Color: White, Blue
Background / Bag Color: Green, Blue, White
Silk Air downsizes and de-emphasizes the logo, then puts some minimal instructions on the back.

Air Force Aviation China

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Xusheng Chen
Print or Image Color: Blue, Red, Yellow, White
Background / Bag Color: White
What a great, boldly colored bag with a badge on the front that I thought at first glance was a sticker. Unfortunately, the badge seems to show an airplane sinking in the South China Sea under a red Chinese Flag sky. Even the back shows 8 large Chinese characters that I am unable to translate.

Japan Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Xusheng Chen
Print or Image Color: White, Charcoal
Background / Bag Color: Charcoal, White
In an ever-changing world, Japan Airlines decides to update its bag by adding more instructions / languages, not to mention another color ... White.

Air India Express

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Received From: Xusheng Chen
Print or Image Color: Red, White
Background / Bag Color: White, Red
I like that the contrail of the plane across the logo suddenly obscures the word "express".

Ethiopian Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Received From: Paul Mundy
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
Ethiopian decides to do away with its logo completely opting for a bunch of generic words. Too bad. Hailie Salasie would roll in his grave.

KLM

Approximate Vintage: 2012
Received From: Dave Murray
Print or Image Color: White, Blue
Background / Bag Color: Blue, White
KLM now features the destination cities right on the bag, so you can now accurately say "I threw up in Paris".

This bag sports the following cities: Cairo, San Francisco, Rome, Delhi, Kiev, Warsaw, Aruba, Seoul

Bangkok Airways

Approximate Vintage: 2011
Received From: Mike Newman
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: Blue and White
This bag exhorts you to "Fly Boutique, Feel Unique", just like the other thousands of passengers on board. Apparently they are branding themselves as "Asia's Boutique Airline". Who am I to argue?

Lao Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2013
Received From: Mike Newman
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: White, Navy
Nice bag featuring a flower and a leaf. Bonus points for the English bag text making sense (like this sentence doesn't).

Condor

Approximate Vintage: 2011
Received From: Gerd Clemens
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag has some kind of design on it, but after staring at the design in even the most abstract way for over 5 minutes, I come up empty. The bag has the following German text:
Bitte an Bord nicht aufblasen und zum Platzen bringen.
Weder vor noch nach dem Gebrauch

According to Google Translate, this means:
Please do not inflate on board and make them explode.
Neither before nor after use

Which makes no sense at all.

Virgin America

Approximate Vintage: 2009
Background / Bag Color: Red
Virgin dives into the American Market with this plain red offering. It's pretty generic, but let's hope they update it with wacky designs.

Air China

Approximate Vintage: 2007
Received From: Rainer Schwartz
Print or Image Color: Blue, Red
Background / Bag Color: White, Blue
This bag is identical to the other 2007 Air China bag except the gusset contains the English letter "A" instead of 2 Chinese characters (Ching and Watashi?)

hnair (Hainan Airlines)

Received From: Xusheng Chen
Print or Image Color: Red, White
Background / Bag Color: White, Red
This bag has a phone number, a picture of a mouse and the abstract jumping jack logo.

Avianca

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Some of the text got moved around, but nothing really to see here.

Webjet Linhas Aereas

Received From: Denir Camargo
Print or Image Color: Black, Green
Background / Bag Color: White Plastic
So the airline is called Webjet, yet there is no website noted on the bag. Webjet was only in operation from 2005-2012.

This bag is identical to the other Webjet bag except that this one is manufactured by Jaya, not Supply.

Sky

Received From: Toshiaki Anan
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Yellow
No, not Sky Airline, just Sky, possibly the most generic name for an airline ever.

Really poor contrast on this bag, but at least it's adorned with 21 stars, like a 21 gun salute!

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