It shouldn't be a production to get a glass of water on a 4.5 hour flight even in plain old Economy, much less in a class that's supposed to get free alcoholic beverages. A lot of stories come through here missing some context or nuance but that doesn't mean you should train yourself to automatically assume the passenger is at fault for not being able to coax a glass of water out of the flight attendants.

Keep your submitted compliant to the point. "I asked for water two hours into the flight and it was refused". Adding things like 'cranky' do not help the situation, IME.

Write to Delta. At worst you get nothing. Best is you get compensation!

The problem with posts like these is that it provokes discussion conflating airline policy/problems with the airline with one passenger's self reported experience.

As we all know, it most certainly is not a Delta policy not to serve beverages on a flight of that length. And in dozens of flights this year, the only flights where I have not had an offer of a soft drink in Main Cabin are ATL-SAV and DCA-NYC. Water has been proactively offered on some of those.

now, what happened here? It's unclear. The OP suggests both that there were no soft drinks and that there was no alcohol catered. If they didn't come down the aisle with a beverage cart, when would the latter come up? As for the OPs request for water, maybe the FA was rude. Or maybe the FA was simply suggesting that the beverage cart was already in the aisle making it's way to the OP, and the OP didn't indicate this was an urgent matter. Or maybe the OP was rude about "begging" for water, or expected the plane to be like a fine dining restaurant where FAs perennially refill comfort plus passengers glasses.

Either way, it's strange for this post to have devolved as it has. Given the clickbaity/histrionic title, perhaps it's predictable.

Mooooo.

I'm not saying OP is at fault. OP should obviously be getting served water, soft drinks, and alcohol in C+, and any reason why they aren't should be the result of criticism.

But I am trying to understand *why* it happened. Was the FA just lazy? Did they make more than one pass through the cabin and OP only asked for an alcoholic beverage during that second pass? Did the FA turn down OP when they asked for water (bad) or did they turn down the OP when they asked for water so they could take their medicine (much, much worse)?

How many times did the FA’s pass through hawking the AmEx cobranded credit card in flight special bonus sign up? US3 airlines are credit card companies these days, as flying planes and providing inflight service is a side gig hobby these days.

Do passengers not bother to get up and go to the galley and either help themselves or ask the crew there?

IME of reading thousands of these things over the years and seeing how they unroll as the passengers give more and more detial, the more extraneous descriptors that are added, the less accurate the account usually turns out to be. E.g. a huge percentage of complaints about "rude" flight attendants/gate agents/hotel front desk agents turn out to be "I wanted an upgrade and didn't get it" or something like that.

Not saying the OP is one of these people, but yes, keeping the story tight and to the point is highly advisable

Whenever I need water to take my meds, I just say that I need water to take some pills. I've never been refused or even given so much as a dirty look. :)

David

Ahem. Please see Thread Titles.

Bottom line, no drink service or alcohol available in C+ on a flight that length is a service breakdown and merits compensation

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I've been told once to not touch the water bottle, that was >2022, so arguably some may not want to test it again?
To the contrary I've had a BA or AA FA (fuzzy memory) pre COVID give me an entire 1.5L bottle because I came back twice, which I thought was very nice and service forward... though that was only once, in Y.

No, some folks refer to main cabin as "Cattle class" I guess in OP's case it will be "Cattle + "🤭