Originally Posted by
Billy Mumphrey
About 5 years ago flying JFK-LWB and delayed due to lack of sodas. The catering truck forgot to deliver our sodas so we had to wait for them to come back. First they went to the wrong plane, we waited some more and they finally arrived with the precious cargo. After loading in the galley the pilot said they forgot to load Diet Coke, only regular Coke, so we had to wait for yet another delivery. Total delay 1.5 hours on a 1 hour flight, and sadly only a single beverage service despite being well stocked.
Never understood this... recently got delayed an additional 30 minutes due to catering (after already being delayed 45 minutes due to some other issues)... Why can't there be a straw poll of the passengers to decide what is more important?!
Ended up arriving about 60 minutes late in total and this was a later night inbound to Atlanta so probably meant a lot of missed connections on the last flight out. Pretty sure most pax would have preferred to make their connection and avoid an overnight stay in ATL over a diet coke...
