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Old 02-09-2010, 09:18 AM
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Default American Airlines: $8 for a blanket and pillow

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2...s-on-american/

February 8, 2010, 12:44 pm

Passengers Must Pay for Blankets on American
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
American Airlines quietly announced last week that it would eliminate free blankets in coach and sell an $8 packet that includes a pillow and blanket starting May 1.


According to Joesentme.com, a subscription travel site that reported the move last Friday, the airline based its decision on consumer surveys. Joe Brancatelli, the site’s publisher, raised a skeptical brow. “American executives run focus groups on blankets?,” he said. “You think they’d look for customer focus group data on what fliers think about American’s worst-in-the-nation on-time performance, its atrocious baggage-handling ability or the hideous condition of its planes.”

The change is for flights over two hours in length to and from Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central America. The airline will join JetBlue and US Airways, which began charging $7 for a pillow-and-blanket set in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
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Old 02-09-2010, 09:28 AM
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Just wait. They will probably start charging for the oxygen to flow when the masks drop down. What do you think? $0.25 for 5 minutes?
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Old 02-09-2010, 09:49 AM
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Just wait. They will probably start charging for the oxygen to flow when the masks drop down. What do you think? $0.25 for 5 minutes?
$5/min
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Old 02-09-2010, 10:16 AM
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bag fees are a joke ..american/delta /cont/and the worst us airways..just pad the price of the bags in the ticket cost..
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Old 02-09-2010, 06:53 PM
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Wonder if the passengers get to keep the blanket and pillow?
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Old 02-09-2010, 07:53 PM
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At least they're not charging for using the bathroom...........yet

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Old 02-09-2010, 09:16 PM
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as if those "pillows" are big enough to do anything with. i can get more comfort from four cottonballs stuffed in a sock.

and those blankets? how many diseases and germs do you suppose are lurking in those things? no thanks.
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Old 02-09-2010, 09:18 PM
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Wonder if the passengers get to keep the blanket and pillow?
that's what i was wondering. i'm sure it's a rental fee tho.
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Old 02-09-2010, 10:48 PM
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I think you get to keep the blanket and pillow in a set. Jetblue even does a bag to carry it in.

Lets face it...airline margins are razor thin and they need revenue any way they can get it.
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Old 02-09-2010, 11:13 PM
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as if those "pillows" are big enough to do anything with. i can get more comfort from four cottonballs stuffed in a sock.
Socks are great.
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how much for the mile high club???
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Old 02-10-2010, 08:46 AM
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how much for the mile high club???

Now thats an excellent question.
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Old 02-10-2010, 08:50 AM
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Can you bring your own blanket and pillow as carryon?
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Old 02-10-2010, 08:56 AM
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Can you bring your own blanket and pillow as carryon?
Yes..and if you do buy them, they are your to keep. They are not rented.
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