Meanwhile, me aboard a train: “Oh you can get whole massive meals on restaurant cars these days? No thank you, I’ll get a coffee and one of those overpriced naff sandwiches.” (Well, the Finnish train sandwiches are pretty good, but they are hella overpriced. Like 7€. WTF.)
7 Euros = 7.55 USD That is a pretty normal price for a sandwich in the USA. I wish I considered that overpriced. 5 or more years ago I probably would have said that was overpriced.
they’re overpriced in the sense that a sandwich does not in any universe cost that much to actually produce, not in the sense that they charge more than other people do for sandwiches.
7 euros isn’t too much more than what a sandwich can tend to cost at Pressbyrån in sweden, which is infamous for charging out the ass for everything just because they can. A normal grocery store that carries some premade sandwiches might charge more like 5 euro for them.
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.
My teacher friends live in big houses and travel all over the world but you know whatever. I don’t.
Liar.
My grandparents were both teachers and are rich. Granted one was a professor, but the other a public school teacher.
In any case, anecdotes do not and cannot disprove the actual statistics.
Also, if you live in a country that actually respects intelligence, I’d HOPE your teachers are actually paid well. Sadly, the US despises intelligence right now…
In dying rural areas in the US teachers are generally some of the best paid. Its mostly in cities where their pay lags. But no, they live in the US in LA(CA, not the state). Also, FYI just because I live in one country doesn’t mean its the same my grandparents live in.
Ahh yes, California, a state that pays more, AND in LA, where wages are WAY higher because cost of living is way higher…
Thank you for describing why your anecdote is an outlier and DEFINITELY doesn’t prove any norm.
Thank you for describing why your anecdote is an outlier and DEFINITELY doesn’t prove any norm.
Where did I say it was the norm??? You called someone a liar for giving an anecdote. Outliers do happen…
Fuck you. Not lying.
No thanks, you’re probably terrible in bed.
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
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here, getting a drink that’s not water.
Stupid. The cost for flights then was more like beyond first class prices now.
Stupid. The cost for flights then was more like beyond first class prices now.
And a lot more smoky.
Don’t like the smoke? Then sit on the other side of the aisle in the non-smoking section.
This reminded me of that one flight as a kid, when I was seated in a row with two smokers. I literally couldn’t breathe. I’m happy that my kids don’t have to experience shit like this.
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.
We are too reliant of air travel as it is. With the advent of the internet we should reduce air travel down to permitted leisure/visiting family and migration. Businesses should be able to video confernced most transactions. The situations where you absolutely need on site representation can be reduced drastically.
That is, if you took climate change seriously.
“Permitted leisure”? I mean this in the kindest way. Fuck you and your miserable excuse for living.
Wait till accelerating climate change makes leisure flights a thing of the past in the next decade or so, along with tame weather and dependable agriculture.
Our species is done, thanks to mindsets like yours.
a thing of the past for poor people, anyway.
We were too conservative in our estimates and other accelerating factors, like loss of the reflectivity of our arctic regions, have entered the game.
This stuff doesn’t go away on any human perceived timeframe even if we stopped entirely. Our beloved capitalists will be able protect themselves for a couple more decades beyond us peasants, but their luxury bunkers with ironically self-sustaining agricultural sections will effectively become the tombs of the families most responsible.
We were just smart enough to make technologies that helped us today and doomed us tomorrow, and still too bone dead stupid not to stop/drastically reduce using them upon discovering the consequences of their use.
🔥🤷🔥
How you morons even look in the mirror is beyond me
Lol. “The environment can suck my big fat cock. I need to go to Jamaica, NOW!”
Thanks for the laugh.
You don’t even know what real driver is, you’re just so pathetic and poor you dont want anyone else doing anything either
I do have a selfish reason; and it’s not because I don’t vacation. It’s I travel for work and that shit is exhausting. Anyway, you’re acting like you care so go and give this a read and leave me alone you dope.
Fucking retard
Using the r word in 2024. Someone I really want to interact with.
Oh you’re just so clever and progressive, so open minded your fucking brain fell out.
Businesses should be able to video confernce most transactions.
Almost everyone who travels a lot for work wants this too.
HA. So look, I do agree. Problem is businesses don’t care, even if we do. If you figure out a way to stop management across way too many professions from holding hour long meetings to talk about some data point that has so significance to what is actually happening, and those “leaders” who call meetings early to get the team together, when the whole damn thing could be in an email…yeah man, when you solve that, I’ll work with you to solve the rest.
Ok, but like I’m not going to solve it. It’s not also going to be solved today. I’m just saying you want to gripe about your shitty airplane experience like we need to make it a luxury resort when really we need to stop pumping carbon into the atmosphere.
Plus, high-speed rail is better for the environment.
Not having to do unnecessary travel at all beats every transportation mode…
Yes, and necessary travel doesn’t need to be via car or plane.
You guys get snacks?
With Ryanair I’m thankful that they have to offer a seat.
With Ryanair you have to pay extra for the air stewardess not to spit on your face or insult you on the way in.
(I might be exaggerating)
(But not by much)
That’s the only service I would happily pay extra for but they do it for free
There’s no snacks. Maybe a mini bag of pretzels if the flight is over 5 hrs long.
And you get that for free? That’s wild! I really mean that I’m happy Ryanair has to offer me a seat
Y’all know you’re allowed to bring your own food right?
But I want to pay 3,50€ for a bottle of water and 10€ for horse meat lasagna
Not drinks though. Man, that time our whole family of five got detained for an hour and given the bomb sniffing treatment because my wife brought a tube of baby butt cream that was a 1/4 ounce too big
Cheaper innit.
Succinct
One word: “Greed”
Look at you, flying on rich planes with that much space in front of you
Yeah but at least the quality of service has went from smiling attractive courteous flight attendants to snarling aisle donkeys.
Talking about service workers like that is 🚩🚩🚩
And the “free” pretzels are also sponsored with an ad on the packaging.
Good old airlines and their ideal business model:
Charge you like you’re flying on Concorde.
Treat you like you’re on a 16th century slaving ship.
Don’t forget that enshittification creeps into the real world as well
