It’s Fat Tuesday, I ate a fat meal and I’m tired, so guess what? It’s time to repeat the reheat. I’d offer you some of my caramel apple coffee cake, but it’s spoken for. And now some updates:
IN the air:
It’s not just passengers dissatisfied with American Airlines, pilots who took one for the team—a pay cut, that is—are prepared to strike if they don’t see a salary hike. Executives say the flyboys skipped negotiations. Neither camp has made any concessions. Few people can fly airplanes, just like few folks can throw an 80 yard touchdown pass, so pay should reflect that. I’m not saying pilots or professional athletes are worth millions, but without them the owners and CEOs can’t have their pumped up pay either. Similarly, without travelers and fans airlines and clubs would crash. It’s called gratitude.
Discount air carrier Jet Blue drafted a passenger Bill of Rights promising vouchers to inconvenienced customers up to the full ticket price and 5 hour or less waits. It’s better, but still not enough and still too long. I’m with the irritated AA passengers; in extreme circumstances, 150% of the airfare should be refunded and we shouldn’t wait more than 2 hours. It’s the companies’s privilege to have us as customers. And again, it’s called gratitude.
ON your plate:
While the Peter Pan peanut butter recall called for a needed cleanup in foodstuff factories, the gold digging parents jumping on the “my child had a tummy ache; pay me” bandwagon –a week after stores canned the contaminated product– should grow up. The flu and upset stomach are not salmonella poisoning. Lawyers are not doctors. If you picked up a newspaper last week while your child was sick, got their stool sampled, and it was positive, then you have a case. Otherwise just send in your lid for a refund. Next thing you know these nincompoops will look in the cabinet and say “oops, we eat Skippy, not Peter Pan.” No settlement for you, no refund either.
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