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American & Delta: Free Meals At Some Cheap Seats


Remember not too many years ago, when your economy fare included delicious meals for all passengers? These days, when flying as a peasant, you’re lucky to get free water and a teeny foil bag containing a peanut or two.

Now, American and Delta Airlines add free quickie meals for economy passengers on some of its long flights between New York and California. Not exactly banquets, they include some packaged sandwiches, salads and chips.

Of course, while you’re enjoying the complimentary meal, don’t be upset to realize you’re actually paying for it. The costs will be included among all the other extra charges tacked on to your economy ticket price.

Ryanair allows fliers to huff'n'puff smokeless PDF Print E-mail

Cartoon of smoker

Many of us now in our senior years can remember when smoking on flights was unrestricted, and we sat through flights while the recycled cabin air turned choking blue with stinky cigarette and cigar smoke. Now, for the past decade or so, passenger smoking has been banned by every airline. However, some genius in Ryanair has just come up with a brilliant idea to bring back tobacco in the air.

Ryanair will allow passengers to puff cigarettes on board and get their nicotine fix. However, they’ll have to do it by sucking on a dry product called Smokeless Cigarettes. The cost per pack of 20 costs about $9 or 6 Euros.

OK, now that Smokeless Cigarettes are allowed in the air, what’s next? Boozeless booze drinks, imaginary added leg- and arm-room in the cramped seats and, maybe best of all, inflatable plastic flight attendants.

 

 
 
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