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Post by Dr Gas on Aug 19, 2015 15:56:50 GMT
Airborne approximately thirty minutes on an outbound evening flight from Glasgow, the lead flight attendant for the cabin crew nervously made the following painful announcement..:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so very sorry but it appears that there has been a terrible mix-up one minute prior to takeoff, by our airport catering service... I don't know how this has happened but we have 103 passengers on board and, unfortunately, only 40 dinner meals... We truly apologize for this mistake and inconvenience."
When passengers' muttering had died down, she continued,
"Anyone who is kind enough to give up their meal so that someone else can eat will receive free, unlimited drinks for the duration of our 5 hour flight."
Her next announcement came 90 minutes later...
"If anyone would like to change their minds, we still have 40 dinners available."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 16:33:00 GMT
True dit: I was once one of 20 blokes on a Boeing 737 flight from Salt Lake City to Washington DC. We were the only passengers. We were offered as many meals as we wanted, plus drinks, and we got to choose the inflight entertainment. Brills !
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Post by Dr Gas on Aug 19, 2015 17:32:54 GMT
True dit: I was once one of 20 blokes on a Boeing 737 flight from Salt Lake City to Washington DC. We were the only passengers. We were offered as many meals as we wanted, plus drinks, and we got to choose the inflight entertainment. Brills ! WOW! That is some distance, so it must have been great to have so many empty seats. You could have just laid across the aisle and got really comfy. I once caught a red eye from Detroit to Gatwick. It was a trip I would much rather not have had to make, so I was so glad to see that the plane was more than half empty because I was able to do just that and was able to sleep rather than drown my sorrows.
As you no doubt know, drinks are not even free on international flights now, let alone internal ones, so I am guessing that is going back a while? Maybe they had some sort of tax incentive/recovery based on how many meals/drinks they served?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 18:33:01 GMT
I recently flew from Frankfurt to San Francisco with US Airways. They still had the 'drop down' television screens! Only water, coffee or tea were free. You had to pay for anything else.
The flight I referred too.......We were military, but the military flight that was meant to take us to DC was cancelled for some reason. We had to be in DC, so they put us on this flight....nobody else ! I don't know if the flight was chartered just for us, but it was fantastic !
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