Don’t Try This In The Air

With so many airlines nickel-and-diming customers, you can either suck it up and pay the extra fees or get creative. What you don’t want to do is copy Rewind singer James McElvar, who became ill after trying to wear 12 layers of clothes rather than paying an excess luggage fee.

Before the Scottish boyband boarded its EasyJet flight from Stansted, Essex, to its native Glasgow on Wednesday, the check-in staff told McElvar that he could only bring one of his two pieces of luggage on board for free.

“The rest of the band had gone through so I couldn’t give them any of the clothes,” McElvar said, according to The Sun. “I was told I’d either have to pay a £45 fee to get it on the plane, get the flight the next morning, bin the clothes or wear them.”

He picked option number four. The singer wore six T-shirts, five sweaters, three pairs of jeans, two sweatpants, two jackets and two hats.

While some travel advisors recommend wearing a jacket or your heaviest items on the plane so you can pack light, I don’t think this is what they have in mind.

Remember that episode of “Friends” where Joey wears all of Chandler’s clothes to get back at him for hiding all of his underwear? I bet McElvar looked something like that.

The singer took off the extra clothes after the plane was airborne – but the damage had apparently already been done. The Sun reports that McElvar “became violently ill and suffered a fit.”

McElvar told the publication, “I thought I was a goner and that I was having a heart attack.” He was treated by an off-duty paramedic.