I was travelling from San Francisco to Vancouver, BC to visit family and I was 6 months pregnant. I was flying alone, and although I was having a good pregnancy I would easily get cold, hungry, etc. I would carry granola bars, etc. in case I got hungry, but I got cold on the flight and my jacket wasn’t enough.
Low and behold when I asked for a blanket I was told I would need to pay $2.00! I didn’t have $2 ~ only $20, and they weren’t sure if they would have enough change. They said they might have to get me change when they landed. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Even the stewardess was embarrassed. I guess they would rather the pregnant lady shivers for 2 hours – what if I had no cash with me? Embarrassing for the airline - please just tack on $2 to my $500+ flight and spare us all.
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Welcome to the real world….plan ahead for your own needs……it’s not just you that they are charging and they were not singling you out for being pregnant. Flight Attendands are not banks, they can’t give you what they don’t have and they can’t just give you a blanket because you are pregnant. Not the flight from hell, just a everyday flight that you didn’t prepare for in advance.
I think it’s silly for all of these fees when the service has declined drastically. While I think you should pack your own blanket like “shocked” does, I’m recommending it for a different reason. Since you’re pregnant, I recommend packing your own blanket b/c those blankets aren’t clean. I’ve read in travel magazines how often airlines clean those blankets. I think if they’re going to charge us $2 to use the blankets, then they better be clean blankets!
The reason for your fees is that the general flying public goes to orbitz.com or expedia.com and looks at the lowest fare, then clicks that. They don’t care about the level of service a better airline might have for just $10 more; they just care about the lowest price.
Just becuz u are preggers, that does not make you special. Quit using your unborn kid as an excuse for people to bend over and kiss your arse future soccer mom.
I’m sorry you were cold, but if it was that important, why didn’t you just take the blanket and let them make change for you at landing, as suggested? If you’re condition was so delicate, perhaps you should have refrained from flying in the first place. You may have been cold, but I assure you you’re baby wasn’t. Please stop using pregnancy as an excuse for special treatment. You are not the first woman to carry a child, for heaven’s sake. If I see you on a bus and the seats are full, yeah, I’ll get up and let you have mine. But if you condition requires more special treatment then that, then stay home on bedrest or pack your own supplies.
It’s “lo and behold”, not “low and behold.”
Yea—because you are too stupid to bring your own blanket, every passenger and the Flight Attendants (FA-not STEWARDESS!) should scramble for you because you are pregnant!
You should be BANNED FROM FLYING while visibly pregnant! You a re a hazard to the safety of all others aboard. Whining idiots disgust me—you are one!
OMG….give the girl a break!
Wow! I have been reading a bunch of posts on this website, and the majority of you frequent commenters are total @ssholes. Who the heck cares what you think? And picking apart everyones’ stories…”blah blah blah, Delta never flew a 747 domestically since 1876 blah blah blah” WHO CARES? I assumed this was supposed to be a “fun” website where folks could vent….and maybe THEIR flight from hell is “routine” for all of you “world travelers” but get over yourselves….who died and made you all the gods of the sky? What a waste of time….
You make a good point about the fees. Just tack it on and have done with it.
It might raise average fares $10-20 but when some of the idiots posting here need a blankie, one will be provided. The only danger is the entitlement feeling. I can hear it now – “How come you don’t have 100 blankets?!?”
The real enemy of sane, civilized air travel is the airlines themselves discounting a service with 96% fixed costs. Give me back the conservative, expensive flying of the 1970’s any time, when trailer trash would take the buggy to see cousin IT.
She asked for a blanket????! The nerve of her! No question she should have been quartered with a plastic knife, and her dismembered carcass displayed on pikes at the airport as a warning to other pregnant women who might dare to get on an airplane.
Come on people!
@wow
Actually, and FYI, when Bernie Kopec died in 2004, he passed on his God of the Sky position to me.
@Demotage LOL
@everyone else, yeah, pack your own blankie, because what the airline is handing out isn’t really a blanket any more, it’s more of a large napkin. They don’t clean them, they are disposable, which is why you pay for them. But, this is a “Flight From Hell” site, and to her, this was a flight from Hell.