Hot towels are back! (1 Dec 2022 Polaris)
Dec 6, 2022, 8:09 am
#31
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Got the hot towels on a IAD-IAH flight on Dec 1st but not IAH-SNA nor from LAX-IAD. Seems hit or miss right now.
Jan 4, 2023, 4:54 pm
#34
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I'm surprised no one else has posted a photo of this recent and momentous enhancement... my first UA hot towel in a couple of years (UA925 LHR-IAD)!
-FlyerBeek
-FlyerBeek
Jan 4, 2023, 7:24 pm
#35
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interesting picture in that I dont recall (from my limited experiences) that the hot towels had UA branding on them - I recall that they were just unbranded cloth (and very cheap at that)
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-m
Jan 5, 2023, 10:38 am
#36
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They seemed the same as precovid to me on my SFO SIN trip. Got 2 towels. Same grid type cloth as before.
Jan 5, 2023, 10:46 am
#37
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-FlyerBeek
Jan 5, 2023, 11:12 am
#38
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Significantly better? I don't fly AA or DL in business so I can't comment but I can say that the towels I received at the end of 2022 were the exact same towels they used in 2018/2019. In other words, worn and ratty and tattered. I think UA put them in a closet for the pandemic and brought out the exact same old, nasty towels and just washed them before handing them out. I would have expected fresh new towels. My bad but this is United.
-RM
-RM
Jan 5, 2023, 12:58 pm
#40
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BlooJoo - you are correct, the bar is low these days.....
like this:
United ditches cocktail picks - to save $80,000 per year
-m
like this:
United ditches cocktail picks - to save $80,000 per year
-m
May 6, 2023, 4:48 pm
#42
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May 7, 2023, 8:14 pm
#44
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