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Northwest Nixes Pretzels on U.S. Flights
AP via Yahoo ^ | Friday May 27, 2:35 pm ET | staff

Posted on 05/27/2005 8:15:03 PM PDT by Arkie2

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- 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 Friday 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.

Shares of Northwest rose 5 cents to $5.52 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, where they have traded in a 52-week range of $4.20 to $11.83.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said in March that it was dropping its food-for-sale program, boosting prices on alcoholic beverages and eliminating pillows on many flights. As of April 3, the nation's third-largest airline replaced its food-for-sale program, which was launched on selected flights in July 2003, with a wider assortment of free snacks in coach class on most domestic and some Latin American and Caribbean flights of more than 90 minutes.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; byop; cheapsobs; deathknell; nwa
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To: battlegearboat
seat belt rental charge

Coin fed oxygen masks.

21 posted on 05/27/2005 8:28:56 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: Arkie2

...and floatation cushions...


22 posted on 05/27/2005 8:29:12 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: Fruitbat

You get inflight entertainment? The only entertaiment on Delta these days is listening to the flight attendants bitch!


23 posted on 05/27/2005 8:30:05 PM PDT by Arkie2 (No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
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To: Arkie2

Why doesn't some enterprising concourse shop specialize in selling "meals you can take aboard the plane." Selling it for maybe half of what the airlines do, or the same price but twice as much food, or twice as good. Hot foods would be a challenge, but cold foods would be easy to maintain (by including an ice packet in the box).


24 posted on 05/27/2005 8:30:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Arkie2

Nixing Pretzels is Pretty Nuts!


25 posted on 05/27/2005 8:30:33 PM PDT by Cvengr (<;^))
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To: Arkie2

You'd have to pay me ( a lot) to get on a Northwest plane.

That being said, why don't charge 25cents a bag instead of nixing them altogether?

btw - why don't keyboards have the 'cents' sign? I find that annoying.


26 posted on 05/27/2005 8:30:35 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Arkie2

Can anybody tell me what the difference is between airlines anymore?

I honestly don't see why I should choose one over the other besides fare and destination.

Actually, the only one that stands out is Hooters Air.


27 posted on 05/27/2005 8:30:39 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

There should be a SubWay sub shop in every concourse in America!


28 posted on 05/27/2005 8:32:07 PM PDT by Arkie2 (No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
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To: Arkie2

It's entertainment, isn't it. :D

Could be a bunch of mexicans doing the job "because Americans don't want to do it." Then you'd have to learn spanish just to fly.


29 posted on 05/27/2005 8:32:48 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: VeniVidiVici

the only one that stands out is Hooters Air.



LOL!!! Snicker, nudge nudge!


30 posted on 05/27/2005 8:33:11 PM PDT by Arkie2 (No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
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To: nuconvert
btw - why don't keyboards have the 'cents' sign? I find that annoying.

The convention we know as ASCII grew out of the old Teletype printers. Cents would be rendered as 'c' 'backspace' 'slash' so would be redundant as a key.

31 posted on 05/27/2005 8:33:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Nick Danger
Every bar owner knows you put the pretzels out there because they make people thirsty. Give away the pretzels, sell the drinks.

"These PRETZELS are MAKING me THIRSTY!!" - George Costanza

32 posted on 05/27/2005 8:34:10 PM PDT by saquin
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To: Arkie2

Not a big deal. Just plan ahead and bring your own food. Last flight I took I brought a Cobb Salad and a bottle of cranberry juice. I will be flying in a couple of weeks and will bring my juice, water, trail mix and DVD player. When I land I will go to PF Changs.

The key is to plan ahead.


33 posted on 05/27/2005 8:35:34 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs ( Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.)
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To: Fruitbat

(spanish) just to (fly).

Ok, what is it with all the sexual innuendos all of a sudden! You and the guy with the Hooters comment should be ashamed!


34 posted on 05/27/2005 8:35:40 PM PDT by Arkie2 (No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
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To: Arkie2

American West is charging $5 now for the headset so you can watch whatever lousy movie they're playing. No thanks.


35 posted on 05/27/2005 8:35:49 PM PDT by .38sw
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Why doesn't some enterprising concourse shop specialize in selling "meals you can take aboard the plane."

McDonalds at DFW is happy to sell you food to go. I recommend you avoid the fries, as they are always soggy by the time the seatbelt light goes off.

36 posted on 05/27/2005 8:39:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: nuconvert

Tommorrow evening is the one week anniveresary of Northwest losing one of my wife's suitcases. It didn't make the Orlando to Detroit flight and it apparently sat on the ground in Florida for six days, but today it seems to have enjoyed a wonderful flight to somewhere in the State of Washington. No one can tell me why it was sent there, but I sense the hand of Bill Gates


37 posted on 05/27/2005 8:39:13 PM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: Fruitbat
I am Sorry....


38 posted on 05/27/2005 8:39:17 PM PDT by cmsgop
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To: .38sw

Just bend your ear down to the place where the (acoustically coupled) phones go in, if you're cheap. They have an itty bitty speaker in there. Of course the posture is a BIT awkward....


39 posted on 05/27/2005 8:39:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Arkie2
Ebenhoch said pulling the free pretzels should save $2 million a year.

Dang - that's a lot of pretzels.

40 posted on 05/27/2005 8:40:07 PM PDT by Prince Caspian (Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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