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.

Transavia

Approximate Vintage: 2007
Received From: Denir Camargo
Print or Image Color: Green, Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Generically called a disposal bag, Transavia gets rid of its logo, sadly.

Egypt Air

Approximate Vintage: 2009
Received From: Cyrille Bodolec
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Egypt Air copies Swissair and SAS and goes with the cloud background

Tam

Approximate Vintage: 2001
Received From: Britta Bebensee
This plastic bag has a fat tire track on its left side. In fact, if you look at one of the original Frogger Arcade machines, you see the same tire track going down the left side of it. Could this bag's designer have worked for Sega?

Fly Niki (Niki Lauda)

Approximate Vintage: 2006
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: Black
Background / Bag Color: White
I LOVE the cool housefly on this bag. The only bag I've ever seen with one on it. However, I have no idea what a Speibsackerl is.

Vomit Pundit, Paul Hager to the rescue! He explains that "Speibsackerl is the colloquial expression for Sickbag in Austria!"

Lot Polish Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2008
Received From: Janusz Tichoniuk
Print or Image Color: Navy Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Lot does away with all the clouds 'n' such and minimizes the logo. They go on to say "You're under our wing", which smells like an armpit and makes you puke, I guess.

Malev Hungarian Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2006
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue,Green,White
Malev addes dithered clouds to the bag, making your sickness a pleasurable experience.

SATA

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Walter Schumacher
Print or Image Color: Light Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
A flimsy bag whose ancestor, Air Acores, no longer appears on the bag. Probably a move by some large ego CEO that wanted to eliminate all references to the company he displaced, and figure the barf bag was just the place to do it.

Saudi Arabian Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: Green, Blue and White
Background / Bag Color: White and Blue
A Darwinian missing link between the 2000 bag and the 2005 bag that shown an intermediate evolutionary state.

Malev Hungarian Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2009
Received From: David Shomper
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Green, White
Malev goes minimal, leaving their name off the bag and you to figure out who caused your nausea.

Lufthansa

Approximate Vintage: 2012
Received From: Dave Koepp
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Same Lufthansa bag as always, except now the bag is white, which means that people can write on it and they'll end up throwing it out unused.

Swiss

Approximate Vintage: 2010
Received From: Petr Hosek
Print or Image Color: Black, White
Background / Bag Color: Red, White
Reverting to an ostensibly older version of their bag, they resurrect the 2002 model, however now the instructions are in ALL CAPS, plus there's a placeholder at the end of the list for no particular reason.

Adria

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Petr Hosek
Print or Image Color: Navy, Gray
Background / Bag Color: White
Identical to 2000 bag, except the design is printed much lower on the bag. Is it different than the 2000 bag or did the printer just get drunk and screw up the registration and positioning of the design? Hell if I know.

A single mutant navy logo living amongst a battalion of clone gray logos. Sort of what it's like to be Jewish in Texas.

Adria

Approximate Vintage: 2007
Received From: Thorsten Hecht
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Navy
This bag kind of mangles the Croatian joke with an English translation gone bad. "A bag, you may confide all your altitude problems to." You can see that the translator did a word by word translation because of the confusing usage and the identical placement of the comma where none is required. Also, someone please tell the translater that proper English sentences never end in a preposition.

Alitalia

Approximate Vintage: 2001
Received From: Pierfabrizio Di Marco
Print or Image Color: Green
Background / Bag Color: White
Finally, Alitalia displays some pride by putting their name on the bag.

Brussels Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 2007
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: Navy, Orange
Background / Bag Color: Navy, White
Brussels Airlines encourages you to be tidy and clean up the plane's cabin. Next thing you know, they'll be asking us to squeegee the windows and gas up the aircraft.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2008
Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
After a 5 year hiatus, Delta changes its design again, this time to the Arnold-like "I'll be back", a double-entendre that functions as a seat holder. They also exhort you to "Feel Better".

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2009
Received From: Janusz Tichoniuk
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I'm not sure what the vintage of this bag is -- I'm calling it 2009 -- but it's identical to the 3rd variation of 2003 EXCEPT there's now a little flower on the front.

Estonian Air

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Smaller than other Estonian Air, but does NOT have "Rosenlew 5198" printed on the inner fold (not shown). The logo looks kind of like a broken wing.

Air France

Approximate Vintage: 2013
Received From: Wolfgang Lüthje
Print or Image Color: Black, Red
Background / Bag Color: White
After 15 years, Air France finally changes their bag, changing the font and colors but not much else.

Adria

Approximate Vintage: 2011
Received From: Petr Hosek
Print or Image Color: Blue, Black
Background / Bag Color: Blue, White
The evil Star Alliance strikes again, forcing cash-poor airlines to redesign all their stuff to make sure of brand allegiance to the all powerful Alliance.
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