Always bring food on airplanes.

[Guest guest]

Airline meals are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, particularly

among U.S. carriers. I typically fly on about a dozen flights each

year, most back & forth to east coast, & I haven't seen an airplane

meal served on one of my flights since 2002. (Since 2002, I've

flown on US Airways, American, Alaska, & Southwest.) The

only " meals " I've seen were ham sandwiches for sale on Alaska.

American typically has beverage service & pretzels.

 

(But even when airlines served food, I still brought my own.

Learned that the hard way when my United flight got cancelled & I

was put on another flight that did not have any veg. meals aboard.)

 

BTW, there's now a trend of cutting out even the snacks:

 

From USA Today 5/27/05

Northwest Airlines pulls pretzels from domestic flights

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Northwest Airlines passengers who said goodbye

to free meals in February at least got free pretzels to console

them.

Now the airline is taking the pretzels away, too.

Beginning June 9, coach passengers who want anything other than soda

will have to pay for it. They can get a 3-ounce bag of trail mix for

$1. Northwest spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said the airline has no

immediate plans to stop offering soda for free.

 

Also, I read that Northwest has cut out their magazines, & charges

$2.00 for curbside check in at SeaTac. And other airlines are

following.

 

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I wouldn't be surprised if airlines soon install pay toilets.