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Tomorrow it'll be 8 bucks to drink water, 8 bucks to use the bathroom, ... Yeah, you can argue internet isn't a necessity. Neither is the bathroom, you can use
by dheera 3y ago
Tomorrow it'll be 8 bucks to drink water, 8 bucks to use the bathroom, ...
Yeah, you can argue internet isn't a necessity. Neither is the bathroom, you can use a poo bag and a diaper. But we're a civilized society. So we provide bathrooms to anyone that needs them. And internet access.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoThis seems like a poor slippery slope argument. It’s not as if charging for internet is new, it’s been what? 20 years? And yet they still don’t charge for water
- jrms 3y agoStill
- Martinussen 3y agoIs that an American thing? Absolutely paying for the water here.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoOn planes? Seriously? Where?
- mvdwoord 3y agoRecently on a 3 hour flight with ROM air I had to pay for water... not even a single glass for free. Was quite shocked.
- dheera 3y agoNot only that but at the Beijing airport there were no water refill stations and the bottle of water I bought at the airport POST-security was confiscated upon boarding. Fortunately I was boarding an airline with free water, though.
- gruturo 3y agoLufthansa, or Luftwaffe as I call them due to the... military kindness they often display. No food and no water. Most recent data point: April 2023, Standard Economy (not Basic Economy). International, 4.5 hours flight (Germany to Tenerife) (and back). The flight had a LH code, although operated by Eurowings which according to Wikipedia is a wholly owned subsidiary of LH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurowings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurowings).
- Gormo 3y agoAnd public restrooms seem to be paywalled everywhere in continental Europe too -- not sure about the airlines, since I usually fly US carriers, but every restaurant or shopping mall I visited in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands required a euro or so to enter the toilet. I've never seen a pay toilet anywhere in the US.
- dheera 3y agoOn the other hand, my experience has been that a lot of toilets in US are "customers only" for males but free for females
- dheera 3y agoChecked bags, carry-on bags, and meals used to be free, and they are all now not free. There are budget airlines outside the US that are charging for water (which I think is unethical IMO, since people avoiding drinking water could lead to an increase in medical emergencies).