The Ultimate, Consolidated "Warm Nuts on UA" thread
. So glad I moved to AA from UA.
Sep 2, 2014, 7:12 pm
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Sep 2, 2014, 7:18 pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi
Overall, I think it's a little desperate that they're that low on nuts, but whatever. The bigger issue is being rude. If I worked for an airline that couldn't spring for a couple extra servings of nuts, I'd be somewhere between apologetic and embarrassed.
Sep 2, 2014, 7:28 pm
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Geez, even if she needed an excuse for being too lazy to bring more, couldn't she just have said that they were out?
Funny thing is on AA (domestically no less), I often have to proactively refuse my second helping of nuts when I don't feel like having another - they often don't ask, they just refill it.
Airline passengers - especially those forking out $$$ for premium cabins - want to feel taken care of and don't want to feel nickel+dimed. Being rudely told that two servings of mixed nuts is over-entitled is exactly the opposite of that.
But we know what to expect from a business that feels the need to cut costs by serving split cashews.
Airline passengers - especially those forking out $$$ for premium cabins - want to feel taken care of and don't want to feel nickel+dimed. Being rudely told that two servings of mixed nuts is over-entitled is exactly the opposite of that.
But we know what to expect from a business that feels the need to cut costs by serving split cashews.
Sep 2, 2014, 7:30 pm
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People pay few thousand dollars for a BF seat - quibbling over nuts with likely a net value no more than a dollar or two seems rather petty to me. And yes they should carry a bit extra - I suspect they probably do, but if the FA gives you a second helping, what will they be munching on when they draw those curtains?
Sep 2, 2014, 7:31 pm
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Sep 2, 2014, 7:31 pm
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Nothing to do with allergies ...
All I did was to ask (ever so politely) for a second serving of nuts on a recent AMS-ORD flight -- in business, if I may add. In reply, I got "you are only entitled to one serving" delivered in a very condescending manner + eye roll.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???
The soup Nazi would've been thrilled
All I did was to ask (ever so politely) for a second serving of nuts on a recent AMS-ORD flight -- in business, if I may add. In reply, I got "you are only entitled to one serving" delivered in a very condescending manner + eye roll.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???
The soup Nazi would've been thrilled
Sep 2, 2014, 7:36 pm
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I think you might be misunderstanding the reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi
Overall, I think it's a little desperate that they're that low on nuts, but whatever. The bigger issue is being rude. If I worked for an airline that couldn't spring for a couple extra servings of nuts, I'd be somewhere between apologetic and embarrassed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi
Overall, I think it's a little desperate that they're that low on nuts, but whatever. The bigger issue is being rude. If I worked for an airline that couldn't spring for a couple extra servings of nuts, I'd be somewhere between apologetic and embarrassed.
Last edited by Baze; Sep 2, 2014 at 8:19 pm Reason: Grammar correction.
Sep 2, 2014, 7:39 pm
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While this is a touchy subject due to the great wrong done to those of Jewish descent in Europe, people do need to loosen up about it when it is used in the context stated in the link. FA's included...
And I often ask for a second serving of nuts. I am obliged about 90% of the time. Most FA's are not that uncompromisingly strict, or terribly rude.
Last edited by azzurro; Sep 2, 2014 at 8:01 pm