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.

Spanair

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Christian Annyas
Print or Image Color: Blue and Orange
Background / Bag Color: White
A more modern Spanair that keeps the logo, but adds a website, phone number and the fact that they're now a member of the Star Alliance.

Spanair

Approximate Vintage: 2005
Received From: Christian Annyas
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Spanair can't quite figure out its corporate identity. Not only is it a member of the Star Alliance, but now they're a member of the SAS group. I'm sure this is all very reassuring to their stockholders.

Sterling

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Thomas Homer Goetz
Print or Image Color: Gray typewriter font
Background / Bag Color: Red
Elegant, unremarkable bag in Harvard Crimson colors.

Swiss

Approximate Vintage: 2002
Received From: Christoph Vogel
Print or Image Color: Black and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
In the inimitable words of Mr. Vogel, "A brand new airline, a brand new pukabag!". Crossair and Swissair merged to form this carrier and both bag designs have suffered.

Swiss

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Matthias Koch
Print or Image Color: Black and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
2552 little Swiss crosses grace this bag. The Swiss never stop tweaking their design, a commitment to excellence you don't find elsewhere in the barf bag world.

Swiss

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: Janusz Tichoniuk
Print or Image Color: Multicolor
OK, I've just about had it with this crappy Belcolor Farbfoto company. Every year they're in business, they feel the need to announce the fact to the world on barfbags. Sure, I like having new versions of bags, but what a conceited company! Now they're up to 34 years of experience. Maybe they do this so that they can up their prices every year.

Swissair (Upper ELAG 2312 Bottom)

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Received From: Kim Fitzpatrick
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Looks like a pleasing plain blue bag, but look in the folds, and the word 'Swissair' magically appears.

Swissair (Lower ELAG 2312 Bottom)

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Background / Bag Color: Blue
Swissair sure seems to have a tough time printing things right side up.

Swissair

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Received From: Peter Greenberg
Background / Bag Color: Blue Halftone
Serrated Top. Nice Clouds. Ahhh.

Swissair

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Connie Thatcher
The Swiss strike again, swapping the old model's turbulent cumulo-nimbus clouds out for the more calming cumulus clouds! Plus the stylized halftoning has become solid. Ahhh!

Swissair

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Albert Oosenbrug
The Swiss never quit. Every time they re-design the bag, it's more beautiful. Truly a work of art, despite the fact that the bag calls you a Spazz. Ahhh!

Taesa

Received From: David George
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
This carrier, which mainly serves central Mexico, is confused. For the Spanish speaking, it's just a sick bag. For English speakers, it's for Air Sickness. For the French, it's for Sea Sickness. TAESA's logo is a horribly disfigured fuselage that most airlines (except USAir) would ground immediately for safety reasons. (BTW, what's a doted line?)

Tam Mercosur

Received From: Britta Bebensee
Print or Image Color: Red, Silver
Background / Bag Color: White
This plastic bag is rather shiny and generic. Has Portuguese, English, and Spanish, plus a very slight windfoil direction field that covers the silver portion. Can't really tell it's from TAM at all.

Tap Air Portugal

Received From: Christoph Vogel
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White Plastic
The instructions actually make sense but the bag is still unremarkable. Portuguese people must get airsick a lot because they have a 5 letter word for it, 'enjoo'.

Tap Air Portugal

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Valtteri Mujunen
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White Plastic
Clean and minimalistic.

Tap Air Portugal

Approximate Vintage: 1999
Received From: Petr Hosek
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White Plastic
Clean and minimalistic. Same as other 1999 bag, except the instructions on the back are left justified instead of centered. Note the error: each step is "Step 1" Corrected on later bags.

Tap Air Portugal

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Received From: Ben Burgess
Print or Image Color: Gray
Background / Bag Color: White Plastic
TAP tries again to fix the bag's reverse. The instructions are not centered, nor are they wrong (with two first steps).

Tarom

Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Using a slightly modified and rotated peace symbol as their logo, this back looks like it was typed with an old Underwood.

Avid historian, Michael Roberts says, "the Tarom symbol may look like a 'slightly modified and rotated peace symbol', but its history can be traced back to the 1920s and as certainly around in the early 50s, some 8 years before the CND came up with the 'peace symbol', as it now known."

Tarom

Approximate Vintage: 1995
Received From: Walter Brinker
Print or Image Color: Light Tan
Background / Bag Color: White
Wingnut inscribed in a circle logo.

Thai Airways

Approximate Vintage: 1994
Received From: David Goldberg
Print or Image Color: Red and Gold
Background / Bag Color: Purple and White
Exactly like the 1995 version except has NO tear off strip.
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