Cheapo United Airlines reportedly talking about charging for food on flights abroad

That's nice. I can't wait until someone has a diabetic seizure, or passes out from hypoglycemia, because United's CEO was too cheap to feed someone during a 12 hour flight. This is truly disgusting. I found out about it from a United flight attendant, who was none-too-pleased about the talk.

As I've written before, our airlines pretty much suck. Brian Komar of the Center for American Progress and I spent all of last night stuck at O'Haire because we got bumped from our direct flight to Denver from DC. Well, bumped is a nice way of saying that United decided to change the flight time to 1:30pm instead of 5pm, and forgot to tell us. Oops. But you'll be glad to know that United's person at the check in couldn't have cared less. "Oh, so it's my fault," she said to me. No, lady, it's my fault that your idiotic company moved our flight up four hours and didn't bother telling anyone. How about a voucher, how about bumping us to economy plus, in exchange for the fact that you bait-and-switched us on our direct flight we purchased? I don't think so. So we flew via Chicago, the flight was delayed 5 hours, and I arrived in Denver 5 hours late at midnight, then got to pay for a $90 taxi cab, rather than ride with my guys earlier in the evening.

It's just one tale, but it's the same tale over and over again. Our airlines suck. They don't care about their customers, and they think we don't have redress when they screw us over. And perhaps they're right. But we don't have redress with Congress. And some day soon, cheapskates like United Airlines will want yet another federal bail-out. They'll want YOU to pay for THEM to continue treating you like crap. And when that day comes, I'll be proud to lead the charge against giving these misers even one dime.

Charging for food on flights abroad. They really are pigs.