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.
@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…..