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.
Coin fed oxygen masks.
...and floatation cushions...
You get inflight entertainment? The only entertaiment on Delta these days is listening to the flight attendants bitch!
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).
Nixing Pretzels is Pretty Nuts!
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.
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.
There should be a SubWay sub shop in every concourse in America!
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.
the only one that stands out is Hooters Air.
LOL!!! Snicker, nudge nudge!
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.
"These PRETZELS are MAKING me THIRSTY!!" - George Costanza
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.
(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!
American West is charging $5 now for the headset so you can watch whatever lousy movie they're playing. No thanks.
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.
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
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....
Dang - that's a lot of pretzels.
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