Saturday, May 28, 2005
Northwest Airlines: Major Rip-Off in the Sky
Joobo has flown Northwest Airlines, so he knows what a lousy stinking airline it is - and it is no wonder that they have record losses each year. (Then again, the rest of the airlines in the United States and overseas suck as well - they rape customers, treat them like cattle, charge them ridiculous prices for seats, and lie to their faces, and they are shocked when the numbers of people who fly continues to go down and down.) Northwest Airlines has removed pillows to save money; now instead of serving crappy airline food for free they offer crappy box meals for $3 (and it includes nothing more than small portions of pretzels and crackers for that), and they have no plug-ins on their (antiquated) planes to plug in a computer. Oh, and they have some of the nastiest flight attendants in the business today. So when we hear of this kind of story, we are not surprised. Of course, we normally post this over at our other blog, The Airlines Stink! (we tried to call it "The Airlines Suck," but we couldn't get that spot), but we thought this is a more intense problem and needs to be discussed further:
Northwest Airlines ends free pretzels
How about we as Americans demand that if these crummy airlines (US and international) want our business, they are going to give us some things we think we deserve. If you want to treat us like cattle, make us sit in hot airplanes next to smelly people for hours on end to go from one city to another, I think handing out some free bags of freakin' pretzels is a minimum we should have.
Send your thoughts to Northwest: We boycott your stinking airline until you try to make flying pleasant. Don't want to? Then we give our business to other carriers and Northwest can go under, so to speak.
Joobo has flown Northwest Airlines, so he knows what a lousy stinking airline it is - and it is no wonder that they have record losses each year. (Then again, the rest of the airlines in the United States and overseas suck as well - they rape customers, treat them like cattle, charge them ridiculous prices for seats, and lie to their faces, and they are shocked when the numbers of people who fly continues to go down and down.) Northwest Airlines has removed pillows to save money; now instead of serving crappy airline food for free they offer crappy box meals for $3 (and it includes nothing more than small portions of pretzels and crackers for that), and they have no plug-ins on their (antiquated) planes to plug in a computer. Oh, and they have some of the nastiest flight attendants in the business today. So when we hear of this kind of story, we are not surprised. Of course, we normally post this over at our other blog, The Airlines Stink! (we tried to call it "The Airlines Suck," but we couldn't get that spot), but we thought this is a more intense problem and needs to be discussed further:
Northwest Airlines ends free pretzels
MINNEAPOLIS -- In the latest cost-cutting move by a struggling airline carrier, Northwest Airlines Corp. is nixing pretzels on its domestic flights, months after it stopped serving free meals.
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 Airlines Corp. spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said yesterday the airline has no immediate plans to stop offering soda for free.
Ebenhoch said pulling the free pretzels should save $2 million a year. Northwest, the nation's fourth-largest airline, lost $458 million in the last quarter alone. Northwest operates more than 1,500 flights per day in North America and another 100 per day overseas.
How about we as Americans demand that if these crummy airlines (US and international) want our business, they are going to give us some things we think we deserve. If you want to treat us like cattle, make us sit in hot airplanes next to smelly people for hours on end to go from one city to another, I think handing out some free bags of freakin' pretzels is a minimum we should have.
Send your thoughts to Northwest: We boycott your stinking airline until you try to make flying pleasant. Don't want to? Then we give our business to other carriers and Northwest can go under, so to speak.
