Drink changes, No tomato juice&SpriteZero-social media pressure restores tomato juice
May 10, 2018, 3:17 pm
#76
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Tomato juice is back: https://www.sfgate.com/chris-mcginni...e-12904623.php
(I can't believe I just typed that and actually meant it)
May 10, 2018, 3:29 pm
#77
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Wish people would be more vocal about the insane meal cuts than tomato juice
May 10, 2018, 5:13 pm
#78
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Tomato juice is back: https://www.sfgate.com/chris-mcginni...e-12904623.php
May 10, 2018, 5:27 pm
#79
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Tomato juice is back: https://www.sfgate.com/chris-mcginni...e-12904623.php
May 10, 2018, 6:29 pm
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Tomato juice is back: https://www.sfgate.com/chris-mcginni...e-12904623.php
May 10, 2018, 8:04 pm
#82
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May 10, 2018, 8:53 pm
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“The other changes to in-flight service on domestic flights of less than four hours (basically everything but transcon routes) includes the elimination of Sprite Zero from the beverage cart,”
May 10, 2018, 8:56 pm
#84
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Happy to be proven wrong (even though I don't drink Sprite Zero)!
May 10, 2018, 9:33 pm
#85
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Is this the last lesson UA learns the hard way?
May 10, 2018, 10:43 pm
#86
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You should still be able to request it.
May 10, 2018, 11:01 pm
#87
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For a while UA was comical, then it become sad. One mindless decision after another: From the UA perspective, perhaps the shameless Denver catering fiasco skated by for six months without too much damage. Packaged food in business didn't seem to bother them too much. And how could we forget the Polaris intro and all its promise(s)? Store your pet in the overhead bin? Etc., etc. So it probably seemed natural to someone in Chicago that--perhaps emboldened by the apparent minimal collateral damage from cuts, cuts, cuts so far--that cutting a popular--and free-- beverage, for no apparent reason, would be a storm that they could ride out. Once again, a foolish decision generates the wrong kind of attention, so the results speak for themselves.
Is this the last lesson UA learns the hard way?
Is this the last lesson UA learns the hard way?
May 11, 2018, 2:39 am
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Hopefully the Stella will make its way to TATL flights too.
May 11, 2018, 2:58 am
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Most of my TPACs, they run out of Sprite Zero by the pre-arrival service. Someone is drinking them.
Me thinks this is a brilliant idea by someone that heard something once about streamlining supply chain. Idiot.
Last edited by goodeats21; May 11, 2018 at 3:39 am
May 11, 2018, 7:53 am
#90
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Every time I read something like this, it just reminds me of and reinforces why I left UA after 34 years as a top elite....AA far from perfect but not doing skin flintish things like this!