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Hold the peanuts please! That would be just too much!

Hold the peanuts please! That would be just too much!

I am 30 min from landing in Phoenix on a flight on US airlines out of Cancun. I am so hungry and so annoyed that I am not even sure what to say. It is clear that airlines have lost their minds.  This flight was scheduled for 4 hours and 43 minutes. The truth is by the time we get off this plane we will have been on it for about 5 hours and 20 minutes. And for anyone who has not flown internationally recently you better believe I was in the check in line 2 hours earlier. Here is the bottom line. I have not eaten in just over 7 hours. I paid a couple hundred bucks for this flight but apparently that only covers one cup of orange juice. No snack, no lunch, nothing. Am I the only person who thinks this is insane?

If you are a marketing executive in an airline at this point your job could not get any earlier. I have been on about a dozen flights this year and I am sooooo tired of not knowing what I am going to get. I remember the days, though admittedly the memories have grown faint, when you got on an airplane and you received headphones, a snack (or lunch if you are crossing half a continent!) and even a juice or maybe even two! Admittedly in those days you have no idea if the food was edible but at least it looked like they tired. US Airlines is not even trying!

At this point the next time I am looking for flight and it was $50 more but I was certain I would get a snack and a drink I would be sold! And there is not way it cost the Airlines $50 for a pack of peanuts or one of those legendary lunches.  I never would have thought there would be value in peanuts.

For the record not all airlines are this bad. US airlines has truly taken the number one spot of the worst airlines I have flown this year. I am certain I will not be here again.