Air New Zealand is not noted for its radical changes in bag design. This first bag has instructions in five languages and is printed in two shades of blue. It's main feature is the advertisement for Avomine travel-sickness pills - a case of closing the stable door after your lunch has bolted. Although the pictures show you how to dispose of a used tissue, mention is made of what to do when used for airsickness.
	Printed in sea-green and proclaiming "We Care", concern for passengers with airsickness has disappeared from this bag. The bag uses the same 'how-to-dispose-of-a-tissue' pictures as above and goes into great detail in seven languages about how it will be disposed of in an environmentally-considerate way - a bit too much of the mission-statement mentality for my liking. (From the Bradford Hundred)
	Virtually identical to the previous bag this example is printed in blue and sports a modified logo (different font). (Swap from Sam Green)
All three of these exhibits are side-pleated bags with no base. However, the pictures clearly show a bag standing flat on the seat cushion. Is this taking artistic license too far? Or have they just copied these pictures from the dozens of similarly attired bags? I think we should be told.

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