News and notes from around the interweb:
- Spirit’s plan to return to profitability: Expired Diet Coke for sale on Spirit Airlines, shouldn’t that be marked down on clearance? The flight attendant disagrees, almost like the Zager and Evans song ‘it doesn’t expire until 2425!’
Flight attendant told me my Diet Coke doesn’t expire until the year 2425
byu/Sufficient_Lunch6569 inmildlyinfuriating - The strangest reason to bond finance terminal construction rather than doing a public-private partnership Austin says they’re taking on $4 billion in debt to ensure the smell of bad barbecue.
“I mentioned a little earlier about municipal bonds and that we financed the airport through financing based on the revenues of the airport… versus doing a (public/private partnership) where you would have some huge company come in, build a new concourse, run the new concourse, and we would just make a payment to that company to have the new facility,” said Dennis Waley, managing director of financial consultants PFM Advisors. “What you lose when you go that direction is the Austin vibe, because you’re going to have more of the national chains. You’re going to have somebody who’s running it to make a profit because that’s what they’re there to do. And it will cost more, so you have to balance: Do you want that feel and that smell of local barbecue or do you want a different type of product?”
It’s weird to think that private-public partnerships cannot have contracts that specify local brands as concessions. And, in fact, the airport isn’t all local brands (run by national concessionaires) now – there’s Starbucks, Vino Volo, Einstein Bros. Bagels… And the airport wouldn’t be making payment to that company unless they want construction and operations that are more costly than the value of the concessions stream.
- Passenger refuses to switch seats with a woman, who complains that this was rude – now she’ll be stuck sitting with her family. Flawless delivery, A+.
Unfortunate airplane seating.
byu/HerpesIsItchy inWellthatsucks - Avianca LifeMiles mostly rolls back latest devaluation
- The refresh of United credit cards includes lots of credits with each, including credits to fly JSX (which is part-owned by United and by JetBlue). You can also earn United miles flying JSX.
Dan’s Deals tells us,
[Y]ou can call JSX at 800-435-9579 and split your charge onto as many cards as you want. You can choose the amount that will be charged to each card. That means, if you or family and friends have multiple cards, you can combine your credits for free flights!
- Oh, come on. Cut it out already.
@united why did you make me gate check my carryon? There is room in the overhead. So annoying. pic.twitter.com/nc7fVt00Ed
— nirmito bandito (@kermitnirmit) April 24, 2025
- Go home, Southwest. You’re drunk.
- Foolish. Everyone knows your oxy goes in the safe.
The Cleaning Staff At My Hotel Stole All Of My Prescription Medication.
byu/hmmmmmmpsu inmildlyinfuriating
If you drink that crap, do you really need to care about its 400-year shell life?
It has been my observation that diet colas go flat much quicker than their sugary counterparts. When I buy them, I always look at the dates on them. Those with dates several months in the future have a better flavor.
Coke can spoil? Who knew? I thought it was the liquid equivalent of Twinkies.
Soda is too acidic to spoil. Peak flavor was lost when you decided to drink it at 8k feet.
In the Year 2425,
Spirit Air is still gonna be a dive
Flyers fight, kick and hit
And the FAs still don’t give a sh*t
Have a Coke and a smile.
I use it as a toilet declogger.
Personally, I’m a fan of the regular Coca‑Cola (‘original taste’ otherwise know as ‘classic’). The only improvement are the ones in the bottles from Mexico (and a few other countries) because they use the better ‘cane’ sugar as opposed to high-fructose corn syrup, which we only use as a way to subsidize our domestic farmers who grow too much darn corn. As for Diet or Zero or New Cokes, nope, never worked for me. And as to Pepsi? Oof. Would rather have water, even if that brand technically is from Long Island City, Queens (NYC), and usually I’m all-for supporting ‘local’ companies *wink*. And if you enjoy spirits, please, only use the cheap stuff if you’re gonna mix whiskey, bourbon, or rum; otherwise, have some self-respect and go neat or on the rocks. Like, actually enjoy the Macallan, for goodness sake. Yeesh.
@1990 Thank you for your wide-ranging post about coca-cola. Spirited as always.
@cr — That’s the Spirit (airlines)!
(Actually a decent book, called, ‘That’s the Spirit! 100 of the World’s Greatest Spirits and Liqueurs to Drink with Style’ by Jonathan Ray. It’s on my shelf, anyways.)
Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi have a shelf life of about 4 months, then the chemicals start to break down and the sweetness starts to dissipate so you are eventually left with a near tasteless carbonated coloured beverage (I worked for Pepsi years ago when we learnt about this issue from having product sitting in convenience stores for too long). This resulted in date stamping the cans.
@ jns — Correct, artifically sweetened sodas typically “go bad” in about 1 year.
@sullyofdoha, your post is the closest to my experience. What is left at a few month after the drink by or best by date does not taste as good. For instance, I have some Pepsi Zero with dates of August 18 from a local store that I bought a week or so ago. I also have Diet Coca Cola from Amazon that I received a few days ago that is dated in May. It was on a coupon sale so they were probably trying to get rid of stock before it was past the printed date. The Pepsi tastes good. I will try the Coke tomorrow. Stores have to rotate their stock so that they never have stock near the end date. I usually pull out multiple packs to compare if I am not happy with the date. I have also learned to not buy diet versions ahead so I can drink them after a four month trip.