{"id":13427,"date":"2005-06-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/northwest-pulls-pretzels-from-domestic-flights\/"},"modified":"2005-06-06T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T18:00:00","slug":"northwest-pulls-pretzels-from-domestic-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/northwest-pulls-pretzels-from-domestic-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Pulls Pretzels From Domestic Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>USA Today<\/i> reports that &ldquo;beginning June 9, [Northwest Airlines] coach passengers who want anything other than soda will have to pay for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/flights\/2005-05-27-pretzels_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">They can get a 3-ounce bag of trail mix for $1<\/a>.&rdquo;  This is obviously an addition to the existing policy of not offering free meals anymore, which has been in place since February.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that NWA is in dire financial straits and will save some money ($2 million seems exaggerated, but whatever) with this move, but this is just ludicrous.  I hope that whatever savings are realized by this policy are not enough to make up for all of the people (myself, for one) that abandon NWA over this&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/\" target=\"_blank\">kottke.org links<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/rant\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">rant<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111790830931469520?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today reports that &ldquo;beginning June 9, [Northwest Airlines] coach passengers who want anything other than soda will have to pay for it. They can get a 3-ounce bag of trail mix for $1.&rdquo; This is obviously an addition to the existing policy of not offering free meals anymore, which has been in place since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/northwest-pulls-pretzels-from-domestic-flights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northwest Pulls Pretzels From Domestic Flights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}