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re: No more snacks on short Delta flights
Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:56 am to Bard
Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:56 am to Bard
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The flight attendants are there mainly to ensure passenger safety and clean the plane, being sky-waiters/tresses is only a secondary function.
How are they maintaining passenger safety? They make 2 announcements, walk up and down the aisle before take off and landing, and then are on standby should some shite go down. Again, they have the time to provide an actual service for the people on the flight, not just make announcements and make safety checks for the airlines liability should an accident happen.
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Posted on 5/7/26 at 7:58 am to kywildcatfanone
Commercial flying is generally a miserable experience; cranky, postmenopausal FAs (especially the homosexual ones), customers that dont know how to act In a public space, endless "weather" delays, the list goes on.
Less interaction with people that dislike their job and don't like their clientele is probably a good thing.
Less interaction with people that dislike their job and don't like their clientele is probably a good thing.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:12 am to Bard
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flights that aren't much more than going up then coming down.
scratch away way way way
it's the little things that kill
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:28 am to Lou Loomis
Yea, i've always thought it was dumb to give people snacks and drinks on a 2 hr flight. Most of these people have already gorged themselves on airport food. All the trash is annoying and then hubbub of the attendants walking around having to talk to all these people.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:53 am to kywildcatfanone
Normally, I would be hollering about how everything is getting worse nowadays and yada yada yada.
With that said, I just looked it up, and the one-hour flight from New Orleans to Atlanta is typically in the 423 to 472 mile range.
I don't see a world where I would take a flight 349 miles or less (as opposed to driving), let alone expect in that short time in the air that the flight attendants would be running around to deliver me snacks/drinks.
A 349-mile flight must be like 45 minutes in the air. People can wait until they land to get a snack/drink...
With that said, I just looked it up, and the one-hour flight from New Orleans to Atlanta is typically in the 423 to 472 mile range.
I don't see a world where I would take a flight 349 miles or less (as opposed to driving), let alone expect in that short time in the air that the flight attendants would be running around to deliver me snacks/drinks.
A 349-mile flight must be like 45 minutes in the air. People can wait until they land to get a snack/drink...
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:58 am to pelicansfan123
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I don't see a world where I would take a flight 349 miles or less (as opposed to driving), let alone expect in that short time in the air that the flight attendants would be running around to deliver me snacks/drinks.
back in the day when airline travel was a little more dignified, and not the Walmarks/Carnival cruise lines/cattle car operation that it is now, we would serve hot meals on flights as as short as thirty minutes, on wide bodies, sercved by flight attendants that weren't wide bodies
Posted on 5/7/26 at 8:59 am to Salmon
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Must. Maximize. Profit.
At least you get there. There are all kinds of treats in the airport.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 9:05 am to kywildcatfanone
Spirit's demise already causing 2d and 3rd-order effects
Posted on 5/7/26 at 9:08 am to wareaglepete
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They can’t spring for some peanuts? F#%€ them!
You think the other airlines arent going to follow suit?
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:27 am to pelicansfan123
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I don't see a world where I would take a flight 349 miles or less (as opposed to driving)
A 349 mile flight in the air can be a much longer distance driving on the road network
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:29 am to butters stotch
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No reason anyone should be upset about no beverage service on an hour flight.
It's the slow, inch by inch drift of reducing of services in order to maximize profit that people should be upset about.
It won't stop here. Next it will be something else that we "shouldn't care about".
Eventually, it will get to something you care about.
And it sucks.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:33 am to Salmon
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Must. Maximize. Profit.
I was on a short haul flight of about 30 minutes and the first passenger asks for a mixed drink that took too much time. Most of the cabin never got served. I’m okay with this decision for short flights.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:37 am to kywildcatfanone
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No more snacks on short Delta flights
I'd buy drinks at snacks at the airport if they weren't marked up 600%
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:44 am to Pax Regis
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This won’t impact us OT ballers who only fly first class. Sorry for the poors.
Us brokies have no chance
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:47 am to Tridentds
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Americans can go 2 hours without eating and drinking… I’ve seen the science.
Humans outside the US routinely do this.
Honestly pre-kids, I didn't understand why people bothered with it. I'd much rather bring a snack (or not) and a bottle of water and not have to deal with a cup and trash and whatever. And then meals were even worse - I still don't understand eating airplane food unless you're just on an amazingly tight schedule.
I will say that with little kids, the beverage cart and snacks are a novel way to kill time and keep them pacified. My cheez-its aren't the same as the ones some strange gives you from a cart, I've learned.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 10:48 am to Auburn80
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I’m okay with this decision for short flights.
Y'all are missing the point.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 11:59 am to TigerFanatic99
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It's the end stage of capitalism. Over the long run, it leads to worsening quality of life for consumers.
Businesses have & will always try to make money, but I wish we could go back to "providing the best service at an affordable price" being the best strategy to make money.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 12:01 pm to Bigdawgb
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Businesses have & will always try to make money, but I wish we could go back to "providing the best service at an affordable price" being the best strategy to make money.
Problem with this is most consumers just want the best price without being willing to pay more for value. Consumers can't complain about everything being more expensive without realizing it's also exponentially more expensive for businesses to operate in today's world vs even 10 years ago.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 12:03 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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This is very petty of Delta. Short term thinking.
Disagree. Trying to discourage the Spirit airline passengers from using them in the immediate future and running off their other customers. I for one appreciate the forethought. Long term thinking.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 12:04 pm to kywildcatfanone
First Class service remains unchanged.
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