Originally Posted by
ethernal
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...
Everyone on our flight was pretty frustrated on our flight at the 1 hour mark. On one hand there would be no missed connections in LWB. On the other hand, the pilot explained that we couldn't leave without the sodas (even if we all voted to leave without them) because Delta had no catering contract in LWB and the RETURN passengers to JFK might well want to enjoy a cold Diet Coke on their flight.