Why not charge for water. After all, it is something that, unlike food, they know you can't bring on board. This may be a sad commentary, but after flying American based carriers, Air France seemed absolutely awesome. If there hub wasn't De Gaulle it would be even better.
tas
· 1 year ago
You mean US Scare. Worst fucking pilots and planes ever.
jr
· 1 year ago
"that will be a 66 dollar surcharge in case you need to use the evacuation slide"-US Air
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I recently scheduled a business trip, picking United over American because of American's silly $15 charge for checking the first bag. (The charge is strictly for checking the bag...no charge to carry it on....so it has nothing to do with fuel.)
Now I find out United's going to be doing the same thing.
You just can't beat an oligopoly.
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· 1 year ago
For every pound of weight, it requires several pounds of thrust which increases fuel costs. You do know that the price of liquid fuel has gone up?
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
Here's a video of the "No Frills Airline" skit on Carol Burnett. Safe for work. LOL
Water? Are you fucking kidding me? Airplane air is already too dry and even with the 2.5 tsp they give you I feel miserable. It is news like this that makes me wish I lived on the East Coast (or better yet Europe) where there is a functional rail system. Out here on the left coast, you cannot get anywhere by rail without it taking 47 years.
My kingdom for a transportation infrastructure...
"The United States has become Burkina-Fauso with cable." Rachel Maddow
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
The airline industry is ending.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
The end of flying as we know it is near.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
I heard on the news the other night that one major airline (American? Delta?) will be charging extra for seats...the price depends on whether it's an aisle, middle or window, an extra $6, $8, with the aisle seat being most expensive (so now your safety depends on how much you pay).
Next, they'll be weighing customers, charging so much for every 50 lbs, rounding up to the next level...
If I can't get some place by land or water, fuggetaboutit.
Houndentenor
· 1 year ago
I'm an opera singer. Drinking water on the plane is essential. I can never get enough on the plane so I always purchase a bottle (after security, natch) and put it in my carry-on. I suggest people who don't want to arrive at their destination dehydrated do the same. Airplanes are incredibly dry and staying hydrated on a flight takes some effort. Yes, they overcharge for bottled water inside the terminal but that $2 buys a large bottle of water, not a tiny one.
The major carriers are already dead. We have been keeping them alive through subsidies and in return we get treated like crap. No thanks. Or at least try to fly Continental. They seem to be the last of the big carriers not nickel and diming their customers.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Amtrak set records in May, both for the number of passengers it carried and for ticket revenues — all the more remarkable because May is not usually a strong travel month.
But the railroad, and its suppliers, have shrunk so much, largely because of financial constraints, that they would have difficulty growing quickly to meet the demand.
Many of the long-distance trains are already sold out for some days this summer. Want to take Amtrak’s daily Crescent train from New York to New Orleans? It is sold out on July 5, 6, 7 and 8. Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 5? The train is sold out, but Amtrak will sell you a bus ticket.
“We’re starting to bump up against our own capacity constraints,” said R. Clifford Black, a spokesman for Amtrak.
(Don't think that's an accident, by the way. The airlines and auto companies and road and airport builders spend a lot of money keeping Congress from funding Amtrak properly, and the freight rail companies aren't going to fight it because they'd just as soon see Amtrak gone too.)
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
what is the deal with crashing industries continuing to pay executives out the whazoo?
i do not get this. the company is tanking, going bankrupt, customers are being charged more and more, low level employees get squeezed, and the executives still get millions and millions?
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Hey, at least the fecal coliform bacteria water is free.
A few years ago I was catching a flight out of Oakland at an off hour and all the feeding stations were closed. The only place to get a bottle of water was at a kiosk run by the Your Black Muslim Bakery. Anybody from the Bay Area probably already knows about this group but for those that don't, well let's just say that after one too many murders they were finally put out of business. Anyways....none of their bottled water was sealed. It was as if they just filled old bottles with tap water. I decided against buying the water but I found it ironic that TSA would confiscate your sealed water bottle yet they had no problem letting Your Black Muslim Bakery sell unsealed bottles of water beyond the security checkpoint.
What a fucking joke. I can live with the soda/juice charge, but water?? This is the kinda stuff that makes you pretty much wish they'd go under.
leo
· 1 year ago
They'll be charging for air next.
sherifffruitfly
· 1 year ago
Uh, bottled.
LanceThruster
· 1 year ago
It wouldn't be so bad if the TSA allowed your own sealed water to make it past the checkpoints (Don't create a police state on my account, umkay?). I remember the first time I realized you could use your own micro-plug headphones as opposed to the double prong air-tube headsets (or whatever the hell they were). No more shitty $2-$5 headsets (exact change only). Is a "NO outside food" policy in effect yet? Can I travel with my own snacks (I'll leave the peanut products at home even)?
bosdav
· 1 year ago
OMG! The SAME thing happening to me when i went to the store to buy bottled water. They wanted money too! This is total crap.
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Now I find out United's going to be doing the same thing.
You just can't beat an oligopoly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCz8he36hsk
My kingdom for a transportation infrastructure...
"The United States has become Burkina-Fauso with cable." Rachel Maddow
Next, they'll be weighing customers, charging so much for every 50 lbs, rounding up to the next level...
If I can't get some place by land or water, fuggetaboutit.
The major carriers are already dead. We have been keeping them alive through subsidies and in return we get treated like crap. No thanks. Or at least try to fly Continental. They seem to be the last of the big carriers not nickel and diming their customers.
But the railroad, and its suppliers, have shrunk so much, largely because of financial constraints, that they would have difficulty growing quickly to meet the demand.
Many of the long-distance trains are already sold out for some days this summer. Want to take Amtrak’s daily Crescent train from New York to New Orleans? It is sold out on July 5, 6, 7 and 8. Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 5? The train is sold out, but Amtrak will sell you a bus ticket.
“We’re starting to bump up against our own capacity constraints,” said R. Clifford Black, a spokesman for Amtrak.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/business/21am...
(Don't think that's an accident, by the way. The airlines and auto companies and road and airport builders spend a lot of money keeping Congress from funding Amtrak properly, and the freight rail companies aren't going to fight it because they'd just as soon see Amtrak gone too.)
i do not get this. the company is tanking, going bankrupt, customers are being charged more and more, low level employees get squeezed, and the executives still get millions and millions?
A few years ago I was catching a flight out of Oakland at an off hour and all the feeding stations were closed. The only place to get a bottle of water was at a kiosk run by the Your Black Muslim Bakery. Anybody from the Bay Area probably already knows about this group but for those that don't, well let's just say that after one too many murders they were finally put out of business. Anyways....none of their bottled water was sealed. It was as if they just filled old bottles with tap water. I decided against buying the water but I found it ironic that TSA would confiscate your sealed water bottle yet they had no problem letting Your Black Muslim Bakery sell unsealed bottles of water beyond the security checkpoint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLGE-059_Ss