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.

Cyprus Airways

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Connie Thatcher
An anal retentive employee at Cyprus Airways, must have noticed the egregious missing space in airsicknessbag. This year's model sports the more linguistically correct "airsickness bag". Perhaps this administrator's plan for the year 2000 is to once again change the bag so that it says "air sickness bag".

Dan Air

Received From: Christopher Wren
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Either the bag designers were totally uncreative, or I'm uncreative in describing the bag in a compelling manner.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1980
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Moved English first, but kept the bag design reasonably similar. Added German.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1982
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag slightly differs from its predecessor. Apparently, some Germans felt that the bag's instructions weren't courteous enough. In response, Delta added the word "Bitte" (please) so that passengers felt respected when throwing up. Note also that American Packaging changed its name to American Bag & Paper Corp.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1986
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Same, but some executive decided to dump the logo

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1987
Received From: Mike Herrick
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Added Japanese!

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Added Thai & a new logo

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1992
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Gray
Radical color scheme change. Went to gray, which totally is unlike any other Delta innovation.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1996
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Small logo. "Air Lines" in a lighter blue.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
"Air Lines" in blue. Changed closing mechanism to peel away instead of twist tie

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Print or Image Color: Blue and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
For some unknown reason, Delta got sick of advertising that it was an airline and excised the words "Air Lines" from the bag.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Another year, another bag. Tirelessly tweaking their design to attain barf bag perfection, Delta trims the budget by excising red, leaving the singular blue color gracing the bag. This is the 12th unique Delta design in the museum.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I'm all for bag diversity, but this is ridiculous. Delta unveils its 3rd bag variation of 2003, this time a plastic offering. Wisely, the instructions tell you to peel tab away 'gently', good advice if the bag is full.

Deutsche BA

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Walter Brinker
Print or Image Color: White, Red, Orange
Background / Bag Color: Navy
This bag reminds you 390 times that this is indeed a wastebag.

Deutsche BA

Approximate Vintage: 2001
Received From: Matthias Koch
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Orange
Can you say Orange? I knew that you could.

Dragon Air

Received From: Daniel Senn
Print or Image Color: Red and Black
Background / Bag Color: White
Daniel tells me that this bag had been hanging in a place called the "Speedy-Bar" somewhere in Switzerland. I'm not sure what he had to do to convince the barkeep to give him the bag, but I hope he doesn't regret it.

Eastern Airlines

Approximate Vintage: 1983
Print or Image Color: Brown
Background / Bag Color: White and Brown
Brown Floral. Went out of business several years ago

Easy Jet

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Received From: Gilles Beger
Although this film processing bag doesn't specifically say "Easy Jet" on it anywhere, the serial number near the UPC code is EJ01, probably for Easy Jet. The bag has a catchy slogan, "Don't be sick, come to Klick!", Klick being the film processing company. The reverse side also has the dubious phrase "Why pay high street prices of £5.99", as if they're selling crack or something.

Egypt Air

Approximate Vintage: 2001
Received From: Barry Day
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Still proud Egypt Air still manufactures its own bags domestically. Bag features either a genetically challenged bird or a pom-pom. Text in fold says "Modern Packing - Cairo Egypt" with a phone number: 2611458 .

Egypt Air

Received From: David Shomper
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Still proud Egypt Air still manufactures its own bags domestically. Bag features either a genetically challenged bird or a pom-pom. Text in fold says "Modern Packing - Cairo Egypt" with a phone number: 2916034.
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