airlines charging for pillows and blankets

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notawannabee

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I caught the tail end of this story on the news. Is this happening ?

This reminds me of another post/thread where people were talking about passing a collection plate around to counterbalance the salary of the crew. Funny stuff.
Hey, if they are making money off blankets, maybe the crew could tug an enormouse vending machine down the concourse and put it in the plane to sell their own merchandise.
 
Sometimes I think the airlines are like the FAA, they dont have a clue to whats going on. Customer Service??? whats tha.

I think NW stop providing them all together.
 
A couple airlines stopped providing them altogther. I think is absolutely ridiculous. I am of the opinion now that airline management across the board has completely lost sight of what is important, and are together destroying the industry, period. Customer service is OUT THE WINDOW. Eh, whatever, I'm just going to get riled up so I'll keep it to myself.
 
I heard they are going to hire auctioneers for each flight to auction the stuff of to the passengers.you get a paddle with your seat assignment on it...is this true???
 
Doesn't surprise me as much as a passenger coming to the cockpit to demand that I remove the bags above row 10 so she could put her bag there.

Oh, or watching four vagrants run behind the counter at Starbucks in Pioneer Square in Seattle, grab a bunch of pastries and fight with the manager!

People are nuts. Airline management is nuttier -- with nougat.
 
I recently flew to a brand new stop for Delta. I believe it was Bonneville, MS. (What the...what are they thinking flying to a town of probably 3,000 people ) Anyway, on the flight back to Atlanta, I was the only person on the jet. ( and I was alone with the flight attendant..very attractive young lady). When I got off the plane, I told the captain that I could envision money flying from the cockpit and into the engines and falling from the sky. It took the form of skymiles and by the time it reached the ground, the people could not use them. He then asked if I had been drinking.
 
notawannabee said:
I recently flew to a brand new stop for Delta. I believe it was Bonneville, MS. (What the...what are they thinking flying to a town of probably 3,000 people ) Anyway, on the flight back to Atlanta, I was the only person on the jet. ( and I was alone with the flight attendant..very attractive young lady). When I got off the plane, I told the captain that I could envision money flying from the cockpit and into the engines and falling from the sky. It took the form of skymiles and by the time it reached the ground, the people could not use them. He then asked if I had been drinking.
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WTF?? Had you? Have you?
 
Doug Taylor said:
Doesn't surprise me as much as a passenger coming to the cockpit to demand that I remove the bags above row 10 so she could put her bag there.
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Though I can sympathize with her, as I hate it when some lazy ass has to put all of their bags over my seat b/c they don't want to take them all the way back to their own seat (which always has room for their bags). However, I just do the polite thing and go with the flow. :)
 
Just got off an AW flight here in LA an hour ago. I got on the flight pretty early and was pretty tired and just wanted to lay my head down for the 60min flight from LAS. I asked the FA for a pillow. " Oooo Yeah, well we dont supply pillows any longer on AW flights, you can get one on our US Air flights" followed by a little smerk. I seriously wanted to rip off her jacket, roll it up and use that as a pillow, however I restrained myself :) so YES it looks like pillows are becoming a thing of the past on airlines. Good thing I didnt ask for a blanket.
What has happend to customer service. I have not been witness to good customer service in a very long time.
 
Run down to headquarters, find a 'manager' and grab his coat. The flight crews are nothing more than easy targets for doofus management decisions.

Besides, some flight attendants are pretty tough, might get your butt whooped! :) Some of them have "Judo Chop".
 
I think that AE and/or AA have some sort of kit that comes with a pillow and blanket for something like $5. Seems kinda cheesy, but then again you know that nobody has been drooling or imparting their lice/fleas to you... Now $1 for a coke pretty much sucks imo.
 
If Helga says in a thick Turkish accent, 'Vell, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US", I wouldn't give her any grief about a blanket! :)

BTW, that phrase is dead. I just heard someone's dad say it here in the pilot lounge. :(
 
More like this. " USE WILL ZIT DOWN INSEAT SHATUPS AND KEEP ZILENT ORDE MY FEAST WE BE ZAH PILLOW" :(
 
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