"Louis Krupp" wrote in message
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> tim..... wrote:
>> "Shawn Hirn" wrote in message
>> news:srhi-EB208D.07442623082009@UNKNOWN-98-136-209-74.yahoo.com...
>>> In article
>>> <1dfa2d95-bcb3-48cf-a57f-877a28887d92@b15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>>> Robert Nicholson wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, I haven't flown domestic in a long time and I noticed a few things
>>>> about our flight with United recently.
>>>>
>>>> 1. On the return leg you see headphones and blankets no longer wrapped
>>>> in plastic
>>> I always bring my own air canceling headphones and I don't remember how
>>> the blanks are packaged as its not important to me.
>>>
>>>> 2. The lunch box choices were dramatically reduced implying that they
>>>> only offer what was left over from the previous flight.
>>> You didn't say where your points of travel are, but in most airports,
>>> its easy to buy food to carry on the flight for less money then United
>>> charges for their lunch boxes. I haven't flown United in a long time,
>>> but USAirways and Delta do the same thing and out of PHL, if I am flying
>>> during a meal time, I simply buy a snack to take on board with me such
>>> as a bag of trail mix and I eat a sandwich or maybe some pizza while I
>>> am waiting at the gate. NBD. I have never paid for food on board a plane
>>> and from the looks of the three flights I took in the past year in the
>>> United States, few other people buy food onboard either so it stands to
>>> reason that they have some lunch boxes left over from previous flights.
>>> That being said, if the food in the lunch boxes hasn't reached its sell
>>> by date, what's the problem?
>>
>> I think he means that all the popular choices will have sold out on the
>> return flight.
>>
>> As you say. I never buy food on the plane. The choices in the airport
>> lounge are usually better and cheaper. On board food is for the
>> terminally lazy
>
> Or people with short connections.
I know that the US is a large country, but just how many journeys can you
contrive where it is necessary to eat:
1) before you get on the first plane
2) after you get off the last
and at a connection?
tim
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