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A |
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adamair02 |
Slightly larger than the other Adamair, a slightly lighter shade of
orange... but the thing that clinches this as a separate bag is the colour
of the wire tie: black rather than white.
2 |
adamair03 |
Adam has added text in English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi
and Indonesian explaining what to do if you puke into this bag.
Not bad for a carrier that serves the internal market in Indonesia only.
4 |
adamair06 |
This time with bolder text.
3 |
aeroflot13
|
At last: Аерофлот has ditched the hammer-and-sickle
logo and Soviet-era grunge design. It's now gone for a sunrise-red
fountain-fill background and a tiny Russian flag that is playing in the wind
- got stuck in the plane door as they were closing it, I assume.
1 |
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 aerolineasargentinas04 |
It's now a low-flying vulture.
1 |
aerorepublica02 |
The new logo looks as if it's Continental's on steroids.
1 |
aerosur06 |
Lucky I'm not colour-blind, or I would never be able to tell the
difference between all these fine Aerosur bags.
9 |
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airberlin09 |
This bag is printed on a thinner, slightly more absorbent paper that
makes the test appear bolder. And the crimping on the base is coarser.
2 |
aircanada05 |
Air Canada's cleaning crews must have complained about
bag leakage. This item now has a reinforced base. 1 |
aircanada16 |
Isn't it about time that Air Canada's bags got a different reorder number
(for that is what I assume the PS 2051 is)?
Other airlines switch bagmaker or make subtles changes in the design
every now and then. Air Canada just makes the eternal PS 2051 bigger (as
here).
1 |
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airchina12 |
A completely new character for the Chinese carrier. There's a string of
AIR CHINA AIR CHINA... going round the top of the bag, and what looks like a
peel-off sticky tab to seal the bag after use. Unfortunately the
instructions are in Chinese only, and I don't want to reduce the value of my
bag by actually trying to peel it off.
1 |
airchina16 |
If you're a serious collector (yes, they do exist), it's always
worthwhile checking the gussets (the side-folds) on your bags.
This exemplar from Air China looks, feels, smells and tastes the same as
the airchina15 model above. But a quick shufty in the gusset shows that the two Chinese characters
there have changed. Don't ask me what the significance of this is - I'll try
to find out.
1 |
airchina17 |
More space between the Chinese characters for "Airsickness bag", and
nothing in the gusset. All printed on the charming pinkish paper they used
to use.
1
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airdeccan02 |
That's better: there are now some tabs to turn. Looks as if Air Deccan
bag design executives saw the criticism above.
2 |
airefata01 |
A new Indonesian carrier that hasn't got round to printing anything on
its bags yet.
1
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airfrance03 |
Clean, stylish, minimalist, very French.
7 |
airindia04 |
Same as the bag above, but with a different phone number
in the gusset: CREATION 9122-5672626. 1 |
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The printing on the base has bee retypeset - it's closer together than on
previous editions.
1 |
airmauritius01 |
Air Mauritius's single red bird flies a lot higher than its fellow
Indian Ocean islanders from Air Seychelles. 1 |
airniugini02a |
The Air Sickness Bag has a ritzy new typeface.
4 |
airpolonia01 |
You would have thought that a reputable firm like Air Polonia
would be able to afford their own design. At least the "Airsickness bag" is
in Polish.
1 |
airzimbabwe04 |
Inflation running at 3000% (that's 17% a week), economic
collapse, widespread hunger throughout the country. Air Zimbabwe has
cancelled flights to London for fear its aircraft will be impounded to pay
for unpaid debts. The company's far-sighted response? Issue new barfbags
with a ritzy new green logo.
1 |
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Aj |
top |
 
alitalia11 |
The Italian carrier now features a logo - or is it a
road sign?
Signs of a fresh bag shipment on this plane: it featured
no less than three types of bags: this one, plus Travelgum and a plain
Xamamina.
4 |
allnippon02 |
Same white strip as on the bag above, but this one is blue. The
chequerboard stripes have disappeared, too. 1 |
austrianairlinesgroup01 |
Like the 1999 bag above, but now belongs to the whole
firm. 1 |
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B |
top |
bangkok05 |
The Thai flyer has migrated to a slightly off-white paper.
1 |
bataviaair04 |
One of these bags went on eBay for $80 recently. I got this one for free
from Gilles Beger. Well, actually, I traded it for a bag that he wanted.
Vive la barter trade!
2 |
bouraq07 |
The broad green band has shrunk by 2 mm.
2
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british09 |
Oh dear, I've been scanning the bags on this site the
wrong way up. Turn your monitor over, and you'll see that it says
"waste" in huge letters: the biggest type yet seen on an
airsickness bag. It also says it in Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and
Hindi—mercifully, in smaller type. Languages dropped since the previous version
of BA's bag are French, German, Italian, Greek and something I don't
recognize (it must be either Farsi or Urdu). Tough luck (that's "tant pis"
in French and "Pech" in German) if you speak any of these
languages. BA has also done away with the detailed graphics, keeping only
two (no cigarettes and no liquids).
If American Airlines
has a bAArfbag, does that make this one a BArfbag? 20 |
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C |
top |
cathaypacific12 |
Yet another variant of Cathay's basic design. This one (with the T in
TEAR over the R in PAPER) has gussets glued firmly together at the top and
bottom.
2 |
cathaypacific14 |
A darker turquoise ink, and the "tear off" has been retypeset: check the
Os carefully to spot the difference.
1 new |
cebupacific03 |
Oh dear, what can have got into the heads of Cebu Pacific's management?
This jolly bag features a moustachioed 747 wearing a First World War pilot's
helmet. Looks like they're trying to give employment on the side to some of
those out-of-work Philippine-based Disney cartoonists.
It also exhorts passengers "for your next flight use cebupacificair.com".
Maybe that will help prevent airsickness next time you fly?
3 |
chinaeastern06 |
A chubby cartoon plane shows how friendly the skies in China are
becoming. 1 |
chinaeastern12 |
This one has the
phone number above. If you want to fax them, it's 8246133.
3 |
chinaeastern20 |
Hope you noted that number down: there's nothing in the gusset on this
bag.
1 |
chinasouthern12 |
It's the "Water-Proofed" that's in larger type. Correctly spelled, too!
1 |
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continental04 |
Seat Occupied Airways have now done away with the wire wings. 1 |
continental07 |
Still with the octagonal star in the gusset, but now with a Skyteam logo
to accompany the Continental globe.
2 |
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csa08 |
Goes to prove that you can put your logo anywhere you
want on your bag. 1 |
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D |
top |
 delta04 |
The New Look Of Delta: A High-Tech Peel-Off Label Full Of Upper And
Lower Case Letters That Tell You To "Gently Peel Label Off Bag. Fold
Down Two Times Away From Label And Adhere To Bag". 1 |
 delta06 |
Things must be getting tough if you have to save money by eliminating
the splash of red ink on the logo and the printing on the label.
3
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E |
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egyptair13 |
Made of industrial-strength paper, this bag is built to last 5000 years.
The "airsickness bag" has been retypeset too. And the tel/fax number in
the gusset is 2916034, in case you want to order a fresh bag while aloft.
1 |
egyptair14 |
Same phone/fax number as above (2916034), but flimsier paper. Don't let
me give you the wrong impression, though: this bag will still last you till
the end of your flight.
1 |
 emirates04 |
Emirates now features a cartoon of a bald man peering over the edge of
a bag: "Help me to keep things tidy". Despite the helpful
diagrams on the flip side, I think I prefer the luxurious-looking bags
above to this downmarket version. 1 |
emirates05 |
This revamped Homo kilroyus bag has the bagmaker's website on the base:
www.nivagold.idz.net. Er, sorry,
it's outdated: try www.nivagold.co.th
instead. 1 |
emirates07 |
Emirates have killed off Kilroy in order to put English and Arabic
instructions on opposite sides of the bag.
15 |
ethiopian03 |
No lion, no logo, no "Going to great lengths to please". So how do we
know it's from Ethiopian? Because the text is in Amharic, that's how.
8 |
ethiopian04 |
My wife actually apologised for bringing me four of these bags
when she got back from a trip to Addis: she knew I have lots of Ethiopian
spares. But close examination reveals a major difference from the bag above:
the English text in the middle has been retypeset. Can't see the difference?
Look closely at the Ms: they have upright rather than slanted stems (in the
bag above they look like inverted Ws). And the Ns and As have pointy tops
instead of flat ones.
What more proof could you want that you should always harvest
bags from every flight, even if you already have dozens of extras from that
airline?
2 |
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evaair07 |
A pretty bag featuring orange and green tongues of fire. 1 |
evaair08 |
Eva Air is coming out with some of the more innovative designs in bagdom.
This one features stylized excerpts from Eva's menu: cubes of fresh cucumber
and quadrucci pasta made from stone-ground grey durum wheat flour.
All arranged in a tasteful spray, as if newly regurgitated by Eva's pampered
passengers.
1 (top torn off) |
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F |
top |
freebird02 |
Hard-to-lose yellow bag with a logo that looks like ~) on its edge. Add a
couple of dots and it looks like a smiley with a broken nose :~)
3 |
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G |
top |
garuda07 |
Subtle, subtle: this bag is like the one above, but it is actually
sealed at the top, and has a row or perforations to help you rip it open.
The dotted lines are dashes rather than dots, making it different from the
sealed bag above.
5 |
garuda10 |
Two distinguishing features about this bag: the sloppy construction (the
seam threatens to come apart with a minimal load of barf), and the fact that
it is not sealed at the top, despite the "tear of here" and perforations.
3 |
garuda12 |
A major break with tradition from the Indonesian carrier. No, they
haven't started making their bags any bigger, but they are a different
colour.
3 |
germanwings01 |
Rich deep purple with gold trimmings - designed to make
you forget you're on a budget carrier. 14 |
germanwings04 |
Recognition at last for the noble avocation of baggery.
"Zur Erinnerung an alle Sammler: Tüte nur leer ins Album kleben!"
This translates into English as: "Reminder to all collectors: Stick
only empty bags in the album!"
I got off a Germanwings flight from Rome to Cologne in October
2005 and walked passed a group of cabin cleaning staff waiting to board
the plane. One was holding a sheaf of these bags. I relieved him of as
many bags as I thought decent.
14 |
germanwings05 |
The first bag to provide a ready-made excuse to passengers who avail of
its services: "It was only a small hole in the air!"
3 |
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H |
top |
hainan06 |
According to the baggossip on the barfbags egroup, this bag belongs to
the Hainan Airlines Group, not just the airline itself.
1 |
hapagfly01 |
I guess a hapagfly is one of those insects that buzzes around your head
just as you're getting romantic with your Significant Other.
2 |
hapaglloyd02 |
Logo is still on the base, but at least they've managed
to print it directly onto the bag rather than onto a sticky label. 1 |
hapaglloyd07 |
The world's first virtual airline: the webaddress rather
than a logo. Visit www.hlf.de for
instructions on how to use this bag. 2 |
hapaglloydexpress01 |
A true rarity - a joke by an airline on a barfbag: Vielen Dank für
Ihre Kritik (thank you for your criticism).
There's even an invitation on the reverse for more:
Weitere Kritik oder Anregungen können Sie auch uns gerne mailen:
kundenservice@hlx.com (you
are welcome to send us further criticism or encouragement...)
This bag claims that you can Fliegen zum Taxipreis (fly for the
price of a taxi). The design is borrowed from New York's yellow cabs. Which
is strange: Hapag-Lloyd doesn't fly there. 1 |
hlx03 |
"Alles muss raus" (everything must go [out]), says this witty
combo of barf container and advert for hlx's budget fares.
1 |
hlx07 |
Da wird der Konkurrenz schwindlig - "That will make the
competition dizzy".
So why not put these bags on their planes?
This is "8. Edition".
1 |
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I |
top |
iberia07 |
Slightly bigger bag for those bumpier trips. The design has expanded
slightly to fill the space better, and the instructions at the top are in a
bigger type to make them easier to read in an emergency.
2 |
 iberiaregional02 |
Instructions in Spanish, French, English, German,
Italian and Portuguese. 1 |
icelandair02 |
Sadly, nothing in Icelandic on this bag. Four possibilities: (a)
Icelanders don't fly, (b) they all speak English, (c) as worthy descendants of Thor and
Odin, they don't get airsick, or (d), as even worthier descendants of the Norse gods, they
don't use a bag when they're sick. 1 |
iranair04 |
Exciting new developments from the Islamic Republic: this bag is now the
same colour as Kuwait Airways. 4 |
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J |
top |
jalgroup01 |
A minimalist design from JAL. Beats me what the 93 grey
squares are for: the grid for an oriental board game, perhaps? 1 |
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 jet04 |
Passengers couldn't read the fine print on the bag above, so Jet's bag
design team have upped the point size.
1 |
jet05 |
Same design as the bags above, but the seam is now in the right gusset
rather than the left.
1 |
jet06 |
Features a pictures upwards through a broken ceiling of clouds - the view
you only get from the ground, or out of the plane window if it's banking
tightly and has one wingtip in the air. In which case, you might need this
bag.
2 |
jet08 |
Nice friendly advice, but a bit late if you're
already using this bag.
3 |
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K |
top |
kenya06 |
Now they've gone back to block-bottom bags again. Confusing for
passengers, but a delight for bagophiles. 1 |
kenya08 |
Everyone (in Kenya, at least) calls Kenya Airways after its callsign, KQ.
Its designer has given in to popular pressure and has given the logo a
makeover to reflect this.
29 |
klm01 |
KLM (1997)
No logo or other indication that this is a KLM bag. The only clues are
the Dutch words "Prullenzakje" (followed by "Disposal bag" in English,
Spanish, Arabic and Chinese) and "Vouwen" (followed by "Fold" in
English and Spanish only). No sign of the other two UN languages: French and
Russian 1 |
klm04 |
I vacated my seat on a long-distance KLM flight to make room for a
mother and her small child. A few hours later, a stewardess came to my new
seat, thanked me, and presented me with this (full) barfbag. Inside were two
ceramic Dutch houses, which proved to be miniature bottles of Bols
liqueur. I immediately registered for KLM's frequent flyer programme, and
will ask to be seated next to small children on all future flights.
There's a tiny KLM logo on the base of this bag, along with the
words, "KLM thanks you for helping to create a cleaner environment".
And for cutting their cleaning bills too. 1 |
klm05 |
After generations of text-only KLM bags, here at last is
one with a design. Either that, or a comb got caught in the press while
the bag was being printed. Clumsy wording on the base: "For your
convenience you may use this bas as your waste bag. Our cabin staff will
collect these during the flight or you may leave this on your seat before
deboarding." 1 |
klm08 |
The KLM printing works now has to do two-colour printing. They use
bucketfuls of light blue ink to print most of this bag, then have to add a
teaspoonful of dark blue to print the minuscule Skyteam logo on the base.
Nothing in the gusset.
15 |
klm09 |
An editor has caught up with the text in the base. It now says "This
waste bag is provided for your convenience. Please pass used bags to a member
of our cabin staff or leave on your seat at the end of the flight."
2 |
klm12 |
Close inspection reveals slightly lighter type in
this bag... but that could be acceptable variation within the same design.
No - the clincher is that this bag has a DeSter star in the gusset.
2 |
klm10 |
When will KLM's design team tire of dreaming up new variations for the
base of their bags? This one has the order of the text and logos on the base
reversed.
1 |
klm13 |
Rumour has it that there are five different versions of this floral bag.
11 |
klm14 |
Can anyone identify the species?
2 |
klm15 |
Another herbal bouquet from KLM.
3 |
klmcityhopper01 |
KLM is not so shy about its logo on this bag. It's on the front of the
bag, and on the base as well in case you missed it first time. 1 |
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 koreanair03 |
You have to call "attendants" (plural) to dispose of this bag.
1 |
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L |
top |
lionair01 |
It's now Lion Air, without the "lines".
18 |
lionair04 |
I definitely preferred their paper bags. The cost of those new 737s must
have been too much for the bag printing budget.
1 |
ltu10 |
At last, relief from the eternal game of spotting different logo
orientations and placements on LTU's bags. This one doesn't have a logo at
all.
The only printing is the logo and website of Turkish bagmaker cnt in the
gusset.
1 |
lufthansa05 |
The new look of Lufthansa. A few years ago, Lufthansa redid their
interior decor, cutlery and uniforms. Of course, the barfbags had to match.
1 |
lufthansa08 |
And lighter... Either a deliberate design shift, or poor
quality control in the Lufthansa colour-matching department? 1 |
lufthansa09 |
No reassuring rectangle of paper glued to the base. Passengers used to
the more usual sturdy German engineering should handle this bag carefully.
1 |
lufthansa13 |
Isn't it a bit worrying when you realize that your barfbag is being
supplied by the same people who provide your meals on board?
1 |
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M |
top |
mahanair02 |
Tearing off the strip on the top of this bag is just about the only
entertainment you're going to get on a Mahan Air flight. No in-flight
magazine, no safety cards, no video, and the stewardesses are pretty but
headscarf-swathed.
5 |
malaysian03 |
Slightly lighter shade of red on this bag. Otherwise,
the only difference from the bag above is the typesetting on the base: the
bagmaker's name and address (ELAG, CH-3422 KIRCHBERG, Switzerland) is in a
bolder font. 1 |
mandala07 |
Beats me how Mandala can come up with so many variants on the same
design. The pattern inside the dots is finer than on other bags - same
printing plate, perhaps, but with less ink?
1 |
merpati03 |
Features someone throwing something into a litterbin.
Not that I've ever seen a bin on board a Merpati flight. Try forcing your
bag into your arm-rest ashtray instead - it's so small it might just fit.
The text also has the friendly advice, "Keep
clean". So is hygiene what "Get the feeling" is all about?
1 |
merpati07 |
Merpati's nerve endings must have gone numb: there's no "get the feeling"
on this bag.
2 |
merpati09 |
Merpati are anxious to get away from their reputation of providing the
smallest bags in the skies. This one is bigger, and is made of plastic.
4 |
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N |
top |
nokair01 |
I can only think that the printing on the Thai low-cost carrier's
(evidently hand-folded) bag is concealed by dense fog.
1 |
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northwest04 |
Northwest is experimenting with different bag structures. It's about time
they found a better design -- perhaps even one with a logo on it.
2 |
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O |
top |
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P |
top |
pactec01 |
This Afghan relief carrier uses standard Sic-sac bags.
PACTEC? According to their
website, it means
"Partners in Technology International".
1 |
philippine09 |
Nope, the feather and the tranquil traveller are back again. But they've
ditched the unnecessarily ornate typeface in the "Airsickness" text.
2 |
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Q |
top |
qatar06 |
The bag above was made by Basic (it has their logo in the gusset). This
one wasn't made by anyone. Yet another proof of evolution rather than
creationism?
1 |
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R |
top |
royalbrunei03 |
The broad yellow stripe along the bottom of this bag is to stop cars from
parking on it.
1 |
 royaljordanian03 |
Same as the bag above, but no crown. Has King Abdullah
started flying his own plane? 1 |
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S |
top |
sas04 |
A new offering from SAS. Look carefully for the name of the airline:
the word "Scandinavian" is hidden in the gusset. 1 |
|
 shanghai04 |
Has a piece of white tape on the reverse to hold the bag base together.
1
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singapore10 |
Singapore's bag design team have decided to put the "litter disposable"
in front of the "airsickness bag".
13
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singapore11 |
They must have lost the printing plates for the bag above. The "Tear off
to open" on this bag is in a bolder typeface.
1 |
song01 |
Delta's low-cost carrier. Why do all these low-cost carriers have such
short names? Song's logo looks like a garrotte: keep it well away from your
neck.
1 |
southafrican01 |
An enigmatic design: a stylized rice plant,
perhaps, or the beak of a parrot? And what is the row of airport
destinations at the bottom? | CPT | LHR | FRA | YOUR BAG | HKG
| Can you use the bag only if your itinerary includes Cape Town,
Heathrow, Frankfurt or Hong Kong? Do they have different bags on other
routes? BAG is the code for Baguio in the Philippines. 1 |
spanair06 |
Looks like Spanair is joining lots of clubs. It's now a "Member of the
SAS Group" as well as being "A Star Alliance member".
The www.spanair.com webaddress is
cunningly hidden in the gusset.
2 |
spicejet01 |
A generously sized bag in case your curry was too hot for you.
The SpiceJet logo doesn't appear to have anything to do with spices - it
looks more like a view of the airport runway lights your stomach might get
as it churns.
1 |
srilankan01 |
Logo looks like a winged worm. 1 |
starair01
|
One of a new breed of soon-to-be-bankrupt Indonesian
airlines. This one reproduces Garuda's design and typographic errors,
including the instruction to "tear of [sic] here" although the
bag is unsealed. It features a paper aeroplane on the front, and is bigger than
Garuda's offering, too. More food on board?
9 |
sterling08 |
Fly Europe for less... and according to the logo, break someone's heart.
1 |
swiss02 |
No longer an "Air sickness bag" (in English,
German, French and Italian), but now "Waste" (in the same
languages), plus "Rument", which I guess is Romansch.
1 |
swiss03 |
No less than 3600 of them. Plus two bigger ones in the red squares near
the bottom. 1 |
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T |
top |
taca03 |
A disturbing case of infection by Yanqui albinism? To think that TACA
used to have one of the prettier bags in the skies.
1 |
tam06 |
Proporciones diferentes en este nueva bolsa de su aerolinea favorita en
Latinoamérica.
1 |
