I Guess I've Never Flown Alaska Airlines

posted by gyma

I'm fairly certain I would have remembered these if I had flown AA:

Alaska Airlines flight attendants will cease a 30-year practice of handing out prayer cards with meals this February, the Seattle Times reports. The religious notes, which feature quotes from the Book of Psalms, began as a marketing campaign to put passengers at ease during the 1970s.

My first reaction was, "They still serve meals?". Further reading makes it clear the cards have only been handed out to first class passengers since 2006 when they stopped serving meals to the peon class.

Would you be surprised to learn the airlines gets more complaints about this than compliments?

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ADDED: One of the co-founders of Starbucks says in the link that his immediate reaction was that the airlines must be worried something bad was going to happen if they were giving out these cards. And if they were worried, he was worried. Heh.