Monday, June 06, 2005
Budget air... budget service.

Yesterday, I learnt that if you pay $9.90 for a flight to Chiang Mai, Thailand, then you'll have to tolerate 3 hours of budget service (disservice) from the air crew. Since you are paying minimal fare, the airline will have to find ways of squeezing every single cent out of you. This includes charging exorbitantly for the refreshments you buy and by using hard selling tactics to get you to buy alcohol. And I don't mean one drink. These air sales people get you to buy the whole pack. (In this case, a 4 pack of canned Australian wine) They have 3 hours to get close their sales! So after 3 hours of 'Excuse me, would you like to buy a 4 pack Australian wine? You can't get it anywhere else' sales pitch... you are sure to end up buying something! Oh, of course to increase their success of peddling overpriced 'refreshments', you cannot bring your own snacks on board. My cousin was told that she cannot make milk for her infant daughter. When questioned about whether the plane also sells baby milk powder, the air salesperson kind of mumbled someting to herself and walked off... five minutes later, she's back with the same line of harassment. I guess in order for us to travel budget style, we have to also accept the fact that they trained their staff budget style too. If you are a MacDonalds' reject, you might wanna consider a job at Tiger Air... it is likely that they will accept you.

# Crapped by Toadjuice on 6/06/2005 01:29:00 pm