News and notes from around the interweb:
- Lufthansa CEO says his airline can’t afford to offer coffee for free in short haul coach. Dropping free drinks and snacks saved 66 cents per customer. Now they feel if they restored free coffee, they’d have an expense – and passengers wouldn’t spend as much on board.
- Well done, everyone!
Surat to Bangkok flights started today.
Passengers drank 15 liters of alcohol on the flight, and the alcohol ran out even before the plane reached Bangkok.
300 passengers consumed alcohol worth ₹1.8 lakhs during the 4-hour-long journey. They even finished all the snacks. pic.twitter.com/aq89qFS1xk— Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_) December 21, 2024
- All sorts of Easter Eggs in airline computer code. I’m told one airline’s loyalty program put in a reference to me in the code waiving change fees for top tier elites.
Here's a fun Easter Egg on the @AlaskaAir website. If you inspect the website code, you'll find an ASCII airplane!
It's even labeled with a 737 and "AS" tail registration pic.twitter.com/JUqHXHr4WF
— JT Genter (@JTGenter) December 20, 2024
- “Honestly comparable to a Polaris meal.” It all depends on what budget you allocate, like American Airlines serving $1 shelf stable pasta in first class.
Singapore airlines economy meal
byu/the_real_coinboy66 inunitedairlines - Delta 100th anniversary livery.
Spotted: our new A350. Here’s your first look…or is it?
byu/delta indelta - Capital One cards lose access to Plaza Premium lounges after February except for those lounges that also participate in Priority Pass.
- The Story Behind the Trippy Tunnel Connecting United Concourses at O’Hare or as Paul Harvey would say, ‘now you know the rest of the story.’
ORD to SAN Flight Cancelled…Nowhere to go for many hours. Rode the purgatory conveyer with club snacks for a five rounds. Truly a top ten experience. 🙂
byu/nunaguna inunitedairlines
Maybe Lufthansa will decide that they can’t afford Carsten Spohr.
Why would anyone get coffee on a plane? Does anyone know about the bacteria in those coffee pots and water holders? If the health dept inspected a plane it would close it down in 2 seconds.
I remember taking a flight from Rome to Hamburg in the mid 1990s – they they stuffed us with food for the entire 2-hour some flight. I don’t think I’ve ever been offered so much food on such a short flight.
@tomri- heat absolves many culinary sins. The coffee temp is above 160, so most bacteria just get cooked. Kind of the historical point of hot beverages- they make water safe to drink.
This whole “don’t drink the coffee” thing is yet another one of those silly myths that some influencers (often a flight attendant) keeps throwing out there, and about as valid as the “way to dress to get a free first class upgrade” silliness. If you look at all other kinds of systems for storing and transporting water that we use…. this isn’t the worst one…..
I agree with Tomri. Flint Mi water is the perfect example. It may be bacteria metals or sulfur. But that is stagnant water from different water sources
Just google it
The health department does inspect aircraft water supplies, including the water cabinets and carts that are used to fill the aircraft. Many airlines mandate doing things like pH testing each day.
The ‘golden era’ of Aeroplan redemption to last-minute Lufthansa First seems to be diminished at best. Oh well. Those were ‘the good ole days’ for sure.
I will say, regardless of coffee or lack thereof on shorter 1-2 hour intra-continental flights, which the EU generally is discouraging anyway, for ‘environmental’ considerations, I do appreciate that LH still flies the 747. It’s special, especially today, to be in-the-nose or up-top on those queens. Slay!
Now, just waiting for this Project Allegris hard-product remodel to actually be completed. I’ll seek them out to try that one of these days. Gotta have something to look forward to. Prost!
Apparently, “lahk” is used to mean 100,000 of something, typically Indian Rupees. And Surat is in India. So, that’s 180,000 Indian Rupees: a little over $2,100 US Dollars. For 300 passengers, that’s $7 per. No doubt prices are lower there, but that still doesn’t seem outrageous.
Meanwhile Air Canada announces free beer and wine systemwide. Lufthansa used to be a premium airline.