Limes
Apr 3, 2014, 12:27 pm
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) and I'll bring the limes. I've got a bunch lying on the ground and still on the tree in my front yard. 
Apr 3, 2014, 12:33 pm
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Apr 3, 2014, 12:46 pm
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+1 I was taught to drink a gin and tonic with a lemon slice. I'll say UA's got it right, but even a broken clock is right twice...I was in Baja California last week, and the restaurants are all cutting back on the limes they place on the table. They squeeze lime on everything down there.
Apr 3, 2014, 1:07 pm
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isn't this a little late for an April Fool's prank?????????
Let's see, if they have doubled and UA has cut them, then they will save 4 billion instead of 2?
Let's see, if they have doubled and UA has cut them, then they will save 4 billion instead of 2?
Apr 3, 2014, 1:27 pm
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Apr 3, 2014, 1:46 pm
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Apr 3, 2014, 4:47 pm
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G&T: lemons. Vodka tonic though, limes. I learned this from pmUA!
I consider this issue nonstupid and highly substantive. If they want to save money they can switch to bottom-shelf for awhile, Skol or Popov or whatever's cheapest at Jewel. But no limes? Might as well just drink it straight.
I bet Delta's answer to this is to buy their own orchard.
I consider this issue nonstupid and highly substantive. If they want to save money they can switch to bottom-shelf for awhile, Skol or Popov or whatever's cheapest at Jewel. But no limes? Might as well just drink it straight.
I bet Delta's answer to this is to buy their own orchard.
Apr 3, 2014, 5:59 pm
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Thanks for the article. I don't regularly read the Moronicle, so don't know the local travails. I can understand (believe it or not) cutting limes on domestic flights because UAL is catering to a budget that has been cut, not to a service level, but its rather cheesy in international J/F.
But you either are a service oriented business or a cost oriented business, UAL is cost oriented.
Apr 3, 2014, 8:44 pm
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I paid for three very expensive G&T's earlier this week (think Four Season's bar with a view) and each had not a drop of juice, so apparently the few available limes are also of poor quality. But I didn't order anything requiring a lime on my sole UA flight. (Thankfully just my second United coach experience of the year.)
Apr 3, 2014, 9:24 pm
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I'm traveling in time back to just after the UA bankruptcy. I was in F on a flight and there were no limes on board. Asking for one, the response was "sorry, what do you expect, we're bankrupt, no limes for you."