Airlines

Let me just say this - airlines in America need to step up! While we waited to get on our United flight, we were asked to fill out a survey with the following question:

Which would you prefer instead of a complimentary meal on your international flight?

1. Meals you pay for
2. Snacks you pay for
3. Meals made by famous chefs that cost an arm and a leg and possibly a kidney
4. Just to bring your own food.

OK, so they weren't that ridiculous, but seriously, why bother asking?? I simply wrote that I would prefer two complimentary meals on my flight overseas - dinner AND breakfast like all other airlines provide!! I mean... seriously! Are they kidding??

Anyway, we sat on our plane for 2.5 hours waiting for various technicians to check out power issues - very disconcerting! Then we took off, had dinner on the plane at 9pm and a snack before we landed.... late, missing our connecting flight with Lufthansa, which is currently striking so they had already reassigned us to a later flight with Austrian air.

Here's a REAL airline!!! (It's the one we flew non-stop last year to Vienna, and they fed us two meals and a snack... like back in the old days!) For our 1 hour 5 minute flight - in the US you might get a drink, maybe even a small bag of 5 mini pretzels - we received beverage service, a salad with cheese something on it, hard roll and dessert. My kids also received a kids package with little puzzles and games and crayons. We've never gotten anything like that on our 3-4 hour plane rides around the US - ever! United gave them wings for our 7 hour flight to Frankfurt!

Anyway, I wish Austrian air had some domestic US flights - I'd fly them every time!!