Before you order a drink on GoJet...
Mar 26, 2012, 9:31 pm
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In all fairness, I've seen many FAs breaking up bags of ice on the floor. I just try'n put it out of my head, thinking that after having been to 61 countries and 49 states, I'm sure I've had worse thingz in my mouth! 
Mar 26, 2012, 9:31 pm
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The bag is there to protect the contents. Do you throw away a Snickers bar when it falls on the ground while still fully in its packaging?
Mar 26, 2012, 9:37 pm
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There's a difference- and I'm speaking from experience here- those bags of ice are notorious for having holes in them. And I don't think comparing ice (a "fluid") and a candy bar, a solid, is the same.
Anyways, it then went into one of those "CHILL" buckets on the cart (which they couldn't drive through that CR7 to save their lives), opened more, mixed up (with the bag in there) and then served to the kettle in Y. I'm saying that the ice is unclean necessarily, but I think this is rather gross and something I wouldn't list as a "best practice".
Anyways, it then went into one of those "CHILL" buckets on the cart (which they couldn't drive through that CR7 to save their lives), opened more, mixed up (with the bag in there) and then served to the kettle in Y. I'm saying that the ice is unclean necessarily, but I think this is rather gross and something I wouldn't list as a "best practice".
Mar 26, 2012, 9:42 pm
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This probably happens at every single carrier worldwide that uses ice as part of its inflight service. How else are flight attendants expected to "break" the ice? I'm pretty sure the ice is "double bagged" too meaning there are two layers of plastic between the ice and whatever it is being slammed against.
Mar 26, 2012, 9:45 pm
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Not sure where you guys are getting the whole breaking thing from, she just pulled it out and left it there.
And the ice isn't double bagged, as much as I wish it was. Got a nasty cut from an ice shard sticking out of a bag loading it on an MD-88.
And the ice isn't double bagged, as much as I wish it was. Got a nasty cut from an ice shard sticking out of a bag loading it on an MD-88.
Mar 26, 2012, 10:03 pm
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So this is your trip report huh? Makes me think twice about ordering my scotch on the rocks. But then again, I never fly GoJet, so hopefully this is not standard procedure on mainline A/C.
Mar 26, 2012, 11:04 pm
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Not sure where you guys are getting the whole breaking thing from, she just pulled it out and left it there.
Odds are it was loaded onto an un-sanitized pallet, moved with a hand truck that has been used in a warehouse for 10+ years, loaded into a refrigerated truck with rotted floorboards, then delivered to the store and placed into a freezer with who knows what thrown in it since it was last cleaned.
Mar 26, 2012, 11:05 pm
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You put ice in your beer?!?!?
Mar 26, 2012, 11:56 pm
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If this bothers you, I would recommend not asking for any ice on any aircraft, regardless of airline.
