Originally Posted by CO DCA
OK - this is a bit esoteric, but are there, or are there not, still hot towels in First Class? I got upgraded for the first time in a year and a half this week on a dinner flight from Houston to San Diego. No towel. From my bulkhead seat in coach on the breakfast flight back, I saw the flight attendant handing out hot towels. I'm thinking that my experience was the result of a tired f/a (we weren't offered wine with dinner until someone said "do you have any wine?"). But wondered whether the towels were gone.
We still have hot towels. It all depends if they board them or not. They haven't been boarding them in the last few months on certain flights that I have worked. Also sometimes they board half the amount that first class holds, so most of us don't hand them out if we are only given half. It doesn't look good to hand then out to the first half and not that back half. It's not fair to blame the flight attendant. If we have them we hand them out.