[Kirkwood]

The “free” food and drinks were never free. You paid for that stuff in the price of your ticket.

[An Old Man]

The airline notes that doing away with free meal service in business class will also allow United to use fewer flight attendants.

They could reduce the flight attendants to ZERO by simply closing the door once all the passengers are on board. Then just start the engine and go.

[ken21]

wha’ no peanuts?

[CORedneck]

I flew Qantas when I went to New Zealand a year and a half ago and their service was good. I have flown United before and I was never impressed with them. The people were arrogant, pompous. I had to fly out of Chicago and my flight home was 6 hours late. The kept changing the gate over the hours like 4 times. Not impressed.....

Kind of sad, when they did bankruptcy, their executives got windfalls but the pilot's pension got turned over to the Federal Gov't and the pilots lost. Their was a story on one pilot who was getting $10,000 per month before the federal turn over. Now he gets $2500 and he is unable to go back to work.

[Bernard]

ALL the unions (and vendors, and other interested parties) made a bad deal in order to keep United in business during the bankruptcy.

Now the flying public is living the sequel to "The Monkey's Paw", after the dead kid shows up the front door. The fundamental problems that drove United into BK were not solved; the symptoms were treated and the patient was released.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Frequent flier to United Air Lines:
SAYONARA, BUCKWHEAT!

[AuntB]

I miss the old days, when you boarded a plane, were well fed and treated like a queen. I also miss that when headed overseas, Mexico, etc. OUR money was worth so much more than theirs. Now the USA is the bargain basement of the world.

Yeah, we need more of this new world wide economy.....