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qjkxbmwvz ,

It can be extremely luxurious if you pay.

I’d rather get to my destination with my wallet still in tact, but you do you.

edinbruh ,

Look at you, flying on rich planes with that much space in front of you

rand_alpha19 ,

Look at Mr. Moneybags over here, getting a drink that's not water.

hemko ,

Eh, if you’re looking for the cheapest ticket available you can’t really expect luxury. Airlines are competing with prices, so all luxury goes off the window like a passenger on a Boeing flight

capt_wolf ,
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So I remember taking a flight 10 years ago and they gave us pretzel pieces from snyders. I thought, great, we don’t even get whole pretzels…

Next flight, they give us generic “trail mix” in clear bags. The kind the old folks down the street would give out at Halloween because it was “healthy.” but that contained approximately 2 pretzels the size of quarters, 3 peanuts, 3 generic m&ms, and 2 raisins…

It gave me the impression that airlines are like schools, where the flight staff are the ones bringing in the snacks because the airline is too cheap to supply them.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fba7344c-350c-49c2-9c0f-f362160ef8b8.jpeg

GBU_28 ,

Stupid. The cost for flights then was more like beyond first class prices now.

dtrain ,

Stupid. The cost for flights then was more like beyond first class prices now.

And a lot more smoky.

tpihkal ,

Don’t like the smoke? Then sit on the other side of the aisle in the non-smoking section.

FelixCress ,

Someone clearly doesn’t understand how much it used to cost to travel by plane 50 years ago.

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

No kidding

For the OP of this meme, you know you can still pay for food services on flights today, right?

Wogi ,

Also this image is bullshit

Tray tables are about half that size now.

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Not on longer flights. It doesn’t benefit airlines much to make smaller tray tables

deranger ,

Save on weight means save on gas. Multiply that by thousands of flights and it adds up. United printed their in flight magazines on lighter paper and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, just by using thinner paper.

They only eliminated 5kg per 737, but that added up to $290k savings.

If anything I think it’d be even more effective on longer flights as those jets spend more time in cruise vs short haul airliners.

By using lighter paper to print their in-flight magazine, Hemisphere, United Airlines saves up to 170,000 gallons of fuel, which cuts about $290,000 in annual fuel costs.

One magazine is now one 29 g lighter and weights 195 g which will make a usual 737 plane that carries 179 passengers 5 kg lighter on average.

kiwi.com/…/united-prints-lighter-magazine-saves-1…

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

United makes 50B in revenue a year. I’m guessing that stunt gave them more value in marketing than actual savings.

slaacaa ,

Good example, aviation is probably the most penny-fucking business in the planet, it’s a life and death fight between the companies, trying to keep costs low.

Wogi ,

I suppose I don’t take many long flights and I don’t recall how much space I had on the last long flight I had.

Typically on my domestic flights I have a tray table that won’t fit my switch if I want to stand it up.

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