{"id":1075,"date":"2008-08-01T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2008-08-01T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:30:20","slug":"this-is-where-we-part-ways-us-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/01\/this-is-where-we-part-ways-us-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Where We Part Ways, US Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve got a pretty high tolerance for airline ridiculousness, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/middleseat\/2008\/08\/01\/starting-today-no-more-free-water-on-us-air\/\">this<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 This will make me pick another carrier over US Airways, on general principle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charging for checked luggage and legroom isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough for some carriers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d starting today, coach passengers flying aboard US Airways Inc. must pay for a drink of water.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, US Airways began charging fliers $2 for bottled water and sodas and $1 for teas and coffees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you seriously need to charge $2 for a 30 cent bottle of water, <em>raise your fares<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Or get out of the ()@*#@ing business all together.\u00c2\u00a0 And just to show you what brilliant people they&#8217;ve got working there, lets add in this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a desperately thirsty passenger does forget a few extra dollars, US Airways spokesman Morgan Durrant says flight attendants will likely \u00e2\u20ac\u0153err on the side of the customer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and give him or her water. After all, the airline wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want its customers drinking tap water from the aircraft bathroom. That water is safe to drink, just not very palatable, according to Durrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Frankly, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not classy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.\u00c2\u00a0 Just pack it in and send everyone home US Airways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve got a pretty high tolerance for airline ridiculousness, but this?\u00c2\u00a0 This will make me pick another carrier over US Airways, on general principle: Charging for checked luggage and legroom isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough for some carriers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d starting today, coach passengers flying aboard US Airways Inc. must pay for a drink of water. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}