CO drops free snacks in Y; DL to follow?
Mar 3, 2011, 3:13 pm
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CO drops free snacks in Y; DL to follow?
Article here
Discussion at the CO forum
Currently, according to the article, DL has no current plans to discontinue comp. snacks in coach. Let's hope they will stick to that! Those Biscoffs are just yummy!
Discussion at the CO forum
Currently, according to the article, DL has no current plans to discontinue comp. snacks in coach. Let's hope they will stick to that! Those Biscoffs are just yummy!
Mar 3, 2011, 3:17 pm
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Didn't NW drop snacks not too long before the merger? I'd say DL has already sent its message on snacks, since they kept them during the merger.
Mar 3, 2011, 3:22 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Mar 3, 2011, 3:39 pm
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I think that was their message at the time. I would not be surprised if in a couple of years, DL gets rid of free snacks in Y. It is all about fees.
Mar 3, 2011, 3:39 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Mar 3, 2011, 3:51 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Mar 3, 2011, 3:54 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Mar 3, 2011, 4:32 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
In answer to your question, we have snacks on all plane rides because we, as a country, have snacks *everywhere*. PTO meetings, office lobbys, auto service shops (mine has ice cream. . . do I really need that?). . . just about anywhere we might be standing or sitting for more than 15 min. seems to require refreshments. And we wonder why we have an obesity epidemic?
Get rid of snacks in coach and utilize the resources elsewhere. In response to a poster's comments about 7 hr. flights: Bring some food of your own (which will be much more filling than 2 oz. of peanuts).
Mar 3, 2011, 5:15 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Mar 3, 2011, 5:34 pm
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I don't understand why people have to have a snack and plastic cup of soda just because they are on a plane for ninety minutes. Seriously, how many other things do we engage in for ninety minutes without food or snack? The time, resources and energy expended on getting everyone a small handful of salty nuts or a tiny cookie could be better spent elsewhere. And don't get me started on flights that are delayed waiting for the stuff.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Flights under two hours should have water available in coach and nothing else. The whining about not getting a few ounces of Sprite because the flight attendants were stuck in their seats during turbulence for most of the flight would end.
Kroger and Publix both sell Biscoff Cookies. You can order them online. Order a box and bring a couple with you on each flight. You will have them when you want them and won't have to wait for the FA.
Mar 3, 2011, 5:37 pm
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Mar 3, 2011, 5:54 pm
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There's a lot wrong with America's eating habits, but I'm thinking the obesity epidemic didn't result from airline peanuts.
Count me as one who would be sad to see snacks go, just as I was sad to see duck go from FC meals, F from international flights, and pillows from behind the heads of those in coach.
Count me as one who would be sad to see snacks go, just as I was sad to see duck go from FC meals, F from international flights, and pillows from behind the heads of those in coach.