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U.S. carriers to install coin meters on airplane toilets

Posted by: msgruntled on: January 15, 2009

Okay, so it hasn’t come to that YET…but apparently, using the cost of a barrel of oil last summer as camouflage, the airlines are now going hot-and-heavy on “unbundling”: thinking up yet more aspects of your flight to charge you for a la carte. Headphones, bottled water, pillows and blankets. So really, the potty is the next frontier.

Oil prices down by half—hello airlines!

Posted by: msgruntled on: December 3, 2008

Oil prices have dropped by more than half since the summer. So when are the airlines going to drop the baggage check fees?


rants about rampant stupidity, hypocrisy, bad customer service, and other annoyances that are thinning my hair out

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  • From msgruntled: Let the GOP go without health care and solve the budget deficit: Quoting Garri.. http://bit.ly/4flH1Z 1 month ago
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