Welcome to the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum!

Museum currently exhibits 3161 unique bags.

Curator: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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.

Air Transat

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Barry Day
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
OH NO! The bag, which used to have a smattering of color, went monochrome. Bite me!

Air Via

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Oliver Conradi
Print or Image Color: Green
Background / Bag Color: White
If you step back and defocus your eyes, the logo looks something like a 2 person water slide. The designation of what this bag is for (air sickness, spuckbeutel etc) is found only within the bag's folds.

Alitalia

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Received From: Kim Fitzpatrick
Print or Image Color: Brown
Background / Bag Color: White
Do bag designers really think they're creative when they make their their A's look like airplane tail fins?

Alitalia Travelgum

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Christian Funch
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Alitalia goes generic with a cheesy serial number-type marking - AZ 64706260. AZ is the IATA code for Alitalia. Furthermore, the bottom of the bag now boasts the infamous "Travelgum" sticker which reveals that the bag's origin is 4/28/95.

Alitalia Travelgum

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Martin Powley
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
At first glance, this bag looks exactly like the other Alitalia Travelgum bag. However, careful inspection of the bottom of the bag reveals that this bag underlines the words "Contro mal d'auto, mal di mare, mal d'aria" whereas the other bag doesn't.

Alitalia Xamamina

Received From: Roger MacRae
Alitalia's marketing tentacles, not satisfied with being sponsored by Travelgum, go out and woo Xamamina (the Italian equivalent of Dramamine) to advertise on the bag. They keep the cheesy serial number - AZ 64706260.

Alitalia

Approximate Vintage: 2001
Received From: Massimiliano Melis
Print or Image Color: Green
Background / Bag Color: White
In a stunningly bold maneuver, Alitalia adds a small triangle to the back side of their bag. Probably a union thing. FWIW, the donor sent this from Vatican City. Perhaps I should direct him to Instant Confession?

Massimiliano (the donor) replies, "Impossible! I visited Rome but I never went to the Holy Seat ... it could be that the stamp had a Vatican subject".

Alitalia

Approximate Vintage: 2008
Received From: Noa Miller
Print or Image Color: Green, Red, Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Alitalia is now part of Sky Team, so they had to change up their barf bags as part of the contract in order to reflect that.

American Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 1984
Mail Photo Labs - They changed film companies!

ANA

Approximate Vintage: 1998
Received From: Brian L Chance
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Tan-Gray
I kind of like the checkered flag look. Japanese writing on bottom.

ANA

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Melanie Aultman
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
English and Japanese text only. Let French speakers puke on themselves!

Asiana

Received From: Johnathan P Bennet
Print or Image Color: Blue and White
Background / Bag Color: Blue and White

ATA (American Trans Air)

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Barry Day
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: White and Blue
Those bastards got rid of the only redeeming part of this bag, the palm tree. I wonder what idiot executive decided that this bag's design was somehow too palatable and had to make it completely void of character.

Austrian

Received From: Richard David Glueck
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
This fairly plain bag sports the Austrian Airlines mantra, "Abfall Waste Dechets" which, alone with the ubiquitous "greater than" sign, is how you know it's distinctly from Austria.

Austrian

Approximate Vintage: 1996
Received From: David Goldberg
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Red
Same as 1995 bag, but now beet red.

Austrian Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Black and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
It looks like the textual logo is an HTML tag gone bad.

Austrian Airlines Group

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Markus Maurutschek
Print or Image Color: Black and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
Somehow, Austrian Airlines became a group this year. They still sport the unmatched HTML tag logo that is the hallmark of the Austrian airline industry.

Aviacsa

Received From: Thomas Homer Goetz
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I'm not sure if I'm transalating this correctly, but doesn't 'Los caminos del cielo maya' mean 'The trucks of the Mayan sky"? Or is it 'The El Camino of the Mayan Sky' (half airplane, half pickup truck)? In any case, the guy on the bag has the most elongated bullet-head I've ever seen, even more elongated than a guy we used to call 'bullethead' in college.

And by the way, isn't Madonna's real last name 'Instrucciones' like it says on the bag?

Avianca

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Diane Moses
Print or Image Color: Brown
Background / Bag Color: White
Thanks Diane!

Balkan

Approximate Vintage: 1992
Received From: Ray Brunsberg
Print or Image Color: Green and Red
Background / Bag Color: White and Green
Logo appears above the Balkan name.
Display #
Page 16 of 31