Delta cuts food and beverage service on short flights

You can literally just ask for the whole can and they will 100% give it to you.

They're really expensive at the grocery stores near me, so I've been buying Speculoos. But Biscoffs dipped in milk would be my death row meal.

...I'm just going to wait here til you start talking about the ranger, Strider, also known as Aragorn son of Arathorn taking Frodo to see Elrond at Rivendell when Frodo was wounded by the blade of one of the Nazgul.

Delta files GSP-ATL with a 22,000 feet cruising altitude, and the aircraft usually spends around 2 minutes and 30 seconds at that altitude before descending again. It feels like something's gone wrong the first few times you experience it.

Article is garbage but here's a quote from the NYT on it: "The airline will add full beverage and snack service for the Delta Comfort and Delta Main cabins on flights of 350 or more miles. The airline said this meant a larger total number of flights would ultimately have beverage and snack service." - source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/travel/delta-airlines-flight-snack-policy-update.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Airplane sushi 100%. Airplane food is rigorously safety checked and packaged and food safety incidents are extremely rare. It might not taste great sometimes but I’m not rolling the dice like I would be with gas station food. 

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Gonna have to fly 1st class for the booze.

For the price we pay and bullshit we have to put up with from ticket purchase to the time you plant your ass down in that stiff, cramped seat, the FA should be gargling our nuts, not handing out bags of them.

You're always free to refuse them. It's not about needing it, its that they're so greedy that $1 worth of cookies and sprite with your $350 plane ticket is too much service for them to provide if they're not absolutely required to by either competition or regulation.

Will anyone think of the alcoholics? Let us byob at least :)

Oil hasn’t passed $115 *yet*.

Now look at the delivery price for jet fuel. The oil futures price isn’t the whole story. It’s double what it was in February.

Physical barrels of oil have been selling at 150+, saw a report that Singapore has bought some at $200/barrel.

Yet. I've never used the remindme thing before but now might be the time.

Meanwhile, you have companies like Ryan Air making vast sums of money while practically forcing their customers to flap all the way to their destination while being whipped by the cabin crew.

"Tea-Mobile: get more" -Catherine Zeta Jones

If you read the article (or reporting on the same issue from a more reputable source than whatever this is), you would see this actually represents a net increase in service. ~9% of daily flights are losing snack service, but ~14% are being upgraded to full service. The headline just omits that second part for clicks.

Who’s buying $7 waters? Bring an empty from home.

This anti-corporation sneering is so much less interesting than the reality, which is just that there's just a weird and very interesting confluence of stated vs. revealed preference that happens around this stuff. People buy airfare based on how c**** the airfare is, primarily. This is how they make their decision. Most people are not adjusting their willingness to spend based on anything other than how c**** the ticket is. And then people get on the airplane on cut-rate airlines and they hate it. They bought the c**** thing that sucks and they're mad that it's not the more expensive thing that doesn't suck as much. That's weird! And it's also a problem, because it means every airline's incentives are just to drive down the ticket price as much as possible, even at the expense of other things that customers eventually discover they do care about. If you don't compete on price, customers just don't buy tickets on your airline -- it's the single most important buying variable. But then a lot of customers who hated the cut-rate version of flying make their decision the exact same way again the next time! The world is full of people who flew Spirit because it was c****, hated it, and then flew it again because it was c**** again, and hated it, rinse and repeat. Again, this is very interesting and weird! Nobody is evil here. The corporations are responding to customers' revealed preferences, which is mostly just "make the tickets c****." Not reacting to these revealed preferences means you lose and your company dies, especially in the airline industry where margins are super thin. Customers are buying he product based on their revealed preferences (i.e. cheapest ticket plz), but then reacting to the product based on their stated preferences instead (free stuff during the flight, no nickel-and-diming, etc.). It's a strange dynamic, and a very interesting one, IMO.

I don’t choose to travel because I get to ride a plane.

Dude they took away snacks on 45-minute flights. Is that seriously something that will ruin a trip for you? 

Yeah I definitely miss those pita pockets with ham and cheese back in the day with American lol