Posted on 03/05/2007 1:52:55 PM PST by Stoat
The plane would have flown anyway.
I was not aware that you could charter a private jet to cross the Atlantic for $4,000.00.
I was responding to this statement, by saying this....
"It doesn't say he rented a plane, just that he paid to fly the chef and the food over.".
It may have been chartered or commercial. The article doesn't state it either way. The hypocrisy is the point here and yes if there was enough people doing this to bump other passengers another flight would be scheduled to fill the slack.
From Wales? I don't get it.
Who was bumped from this flight?
Hope he wasn't expecting ice in his Pepsi.
From the AP article:
Kanye West gets food delivery from U.K. - Yahoo! News
"For a feast of onion bhajees, chapati breads, biryanis, pappadums, a specially prepared fish dish and vegetables on the side, the bill will top $3,900, plus travel and accommodation for the restaurant's head chef."
and later in the article:
"From there, the chef is to hop a flight to New York — monitoring the food's temperature all the way — clear customs, and head for Manhattan, where the meal is to be served during a meeting Wednesday."
From this, it SOUNDS to me that this was not a matter of using a regularly-scheduled commercial flight, putting the Chef in a First Class seat and the food in the plane's cargo hold. How would he be able to "monitor the food's temperature all the way" and, if necessary, adjust it?
It sounds to me that the only way that this would be possible would be for the chef to have continuous access to the food, which sounds almost like having the food set up in chafing dishes.
This won't be possible in a standard commercial flight, not even in First Class.
It sounds as though it would only be possible on a private chartered jet with special equipment set up for all of this in the cabin.
"Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've chopped it. I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it." -- Al Gore, 1988
"a courier"
Right.
:-)
That's a lot of money to pay for some fried chicken and water melon
Kanye West hates American Chefs.
let me try to use some liberal logic here.
1) Global Warming is the result of man polluting the environment
2) Everyone knows Global Warming causes bad weather and hurricanes
3) Kanye West has his dinner flown from Wales
4) Airplanes burn fuel and spew tons of pollutants into the air causing more Global Warming
5) It stands to reason that Kanye causes Global Warming
6) And that means he obviously doesn't care about black people because everyone knows that minorities suffer the most from Global Warming.
It sounds to me that the only way that this would be possible would be for the chef to have continuous access to the food, which sounds almost like having the food set up in chafing dishes.
...a feast of onion bhajees, chapati breads, biryanis, pappadums, a specially prepared fish dish and vegetables on the side, already prepared?
Wouldn't it be chilled, ready to be freshly cooked? For that kind of money I wouldn't want soggy vegetables.
I dunno. Maybe some family returning from vacation and the airline was willing to accept the higher seat revenue for the later ticketed chef and his assistant(s). Doesn't matter though, your defense of Kanye West and his ilk is all I need to know about you.
I personally could care less if that Chef had flown in an empty 747. If the airline was willing to fly it at whatever price it was willing to acccept, I'm ok with that. Just don't tell me how I should be eating hamburger while you have the last prime rib.
Good point, but in order for the chef to be able to "monitor the temperature all the way" I think that this would then be a matter of an error on the part of the reporter (very possible) or a private chartered jet which allowed the chef access to whatever equipment, whether it be warming or cooling, the whole way....not something that a standard, commercial flight is set up for.
Hopefully more information on all this will eventually leak out....but at any rate, it appears that the total cost was far more than the $4,000.00 figure because the article specifies that travel and accommodation would be extra.....unless this is yet another reporting error, which is quite possible :-)
Not to mention the unnecessary wattage per day for lousy Rap music.
Learned it at one of Uncle Ted's concerts. Wham, d@#$, sweet (what the sign means).
First of all the word is "watermelon" not "water melon" {sic}. But for now, I will blame your illiteracy on the public school you attended.
However, the "fried chicken" and "water mellon"{sic} comment makes you look like a racist moron.
Did you learn that in public school as well?
"Four legs good, two legs better."
Agreed. These hyper-rich rappers who bleat in their 'music' about how tough they are and how much pain they have seen is ludicrous at the outset. Too bad all of the kids who bought his CD's didn't buy a worthwhile, lasting investment instead.
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