Posted on 08/04/2008 9:46:39 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
JetBlue now charging for pillows on planes Mon Aug 4, 2008 12:21pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp, which made its name providing free television and leather seats on its flights, started charging passengers for pillows on Monday, marking the latest attempt by struggling airlines to claw back some of the cost of soaring fuel prices.
The U.S. No. 7 carrier said it will no longer provide pillows, but passengers on flights longer than two hours can buy a pillow and blanket kit for $7, which the airline is touting as healthy and eco-friendly.
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If I’m paying for a pillow I’m taking it home with me after the flight!
The money used to pay for pillows goes towards ridding the mites, scabies, lice, and other critters.
There is NOTHING in our Constitution that says everyone has the right to cheap airline flights. If they cannot afford a ticket... take the bus...
just watch out for the crazy guy with a big knife...
You know what’s next....$5.00 for number 1 and $10.00 for number 2.....
Why don’t they just make i flight a luxury like it used to be intead of a bus ride in the sky? My last flight WAS my last unless I can afford to fly first class.
I always bring my own little horse-shoe shaped pillow and a wrap, anyway, and have for decades. I have seriously thought about bringing an airline seat liner. I do not want to acquire any foreign cooties. Airplanes and airplane hygiene creep me out enough as it is without the thought of where their pillows have been.
No one should use airplane pillows anyway. Imagine putting your face on something that hundreds of other people have sneezed, drooled, and sat on, just in the past few days, not to mention the tens of thousands over the life of the pillow.
Remind me not to fly Jet Blue.
Sounds like they are trying to go out of business
The next revenue enhancer will have passengers swiping their credit cards to use the toilets (tissue, wash water, hand towels, all extras) and a coin slot near the oxygen masks.
Thats outrageous.
I think airlines need to be brought back under regulation. They clearly have no idea how to price their services and seem to have been loosing money as far back as I can remember.
Those pillows were pretty good for smothering that guy next to you who snores like a freight train....
Well at least it would be more available when you really need it! :P
Why don’t they just make i flight a luxury like it used to be intead of a bus ride in the sky? My last flight WAS my last unless I can afford to fly first class.
How about they just raise the prices 50 a ticket, but they have to give me good service.
I mean the kind of service you get with the non-unionized airlines outside the US.
Don’t forget the blanket.
They’re probably just following the lead of Muhammed Airlines, who have recently sought to make a prophet by charging a nominal fee for box cutters and swords.
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