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UnderOveur 03-24-2013 04:57 AM
Delta Delivers Pizza, but No Beer
 
A Delta employee ordered 60 pizzas for delayed passengers on an Atlanta-bound flight from Tennessee after the plane was stranded on the tarmac for three hours on Monday.

Delta reportedly worked with TSA to clear the delivery through security and the pizzas were delivered to the plane by a police car that had its lights flashing, reports the Chronicle.

One passenger said she and her fellow passengers were pretty excited to see the Pizza Hut pizza.

"Everyone appeared happy after the pizza feed -- "but they just wouldn't serve us beer," said Vazmina. "And yes we asked a bunch of times."
No beer?? Delta is lucky there wasn't a riot. ;)

captjns 03-24-2013 07:02 AM
Maybe the first airline to get publicity, but not the first airline to feed the masses in the back while stuck on the ground. But good job folks.

Doug Masters 03-24-2013 07:12 AM
I wonder if that pizza came with breadsticks. ZING:D

Columbia 03-24-2013 07:17 AM
Originally Posted by captjns (Post 1378531)
Maybe the first airline to get publicity, but not the first airline to feed the masses in the back while stuck on the ground. But good job folks.
First time I or many of the people I know have heard of something like this. Thats certainly thinking "out of the box" (pun intended). Although, not sure why they didn't open up the booze cart.

DelDah Capt 03-24-2013 07:54 AM
Originally Posted by Columbia (Post 1378535)
Although, not sure why they didn't open up the booze cart.

I'm not sure that adding unlimited free booze into the mix of cranky, ticked off, delayed passengers trapped in a metal tube for an undetermined period of time is the smartest thing to do. Alcohol has the strange ability to make happy people happier and angry people angrier.

V169 03-24-2013 07:56 AM
A SWA Captain did the same thing in 2010 after a weather divert to Pueblo for storms in Denver. The TSA raised a stink afterwards because the airport didn't screen the pizzas before they were delivered to the jet!

captjns 03-24-2013 08:50 AM
Originally Posted by Doug Masters (Post 1378533)
I wonder if that pizza came with breadsticks. ZING:D
I hope Garlic bread sticks.... Yummm;)

captjns 03-24-2013 08:51 AM
Originally Posted by Columbia (Post 1378535)
Although, not sure why they didn't open up the booze cart.
What's the point... No cognac.:o

EMBFlyer 03-24-2013 08:59 AM
I personally did this for 25 passengers and my crew on the RJ 2 years ago when we diverted to an offline station. I never even heard from my chief pilot, let alone the national media.

buzzpat 03-24-2013 01:45 PM
Originally Posted by EMBFlyer (Post 1378593)
I personally did this for 25 passengers and my crew on the RJ 2 years ago when we diverted to an offline station. I never even heard from my chief pilot, let alone the national media.
Way to go ace.

LNL76 03-24-2013 01:59 PM
Pretty sure liquor can't be served while on the ground......

full of luv 03-24-2013 02:10 PM
What???? Don't tell that to first class. I love the glass of champagne while the masses board ( nonrev of course ).

LNL76 03-24-2013 02:12 PM
Originally Posted by full of luv (Post 1378779)
What???? Don't tell that to first class. I love the glass of champagne while the masses board ( nonrev of course ).
Oops, yes...meant coach AND beverage carts can't be used while on the ground.

Columbia 03-24-2013 07:03 PM
Laziness....it's in our psyche.....

Sata 4000 RP 03-25-2013 05:03 AM
I was talking to a very senior DAL dispatcher yesterday and its amazing the number of ATL diversions they had last Monday due to thunder and hail.

EMBFlyer 03-25-2013 06:02 AM
Originally Posted by Sata 4000 RP (Post 1379072)
I was talking to a very senior DAL dispatcher yesterday and its amazing the number of ATL diversions they had last Monday due to thunder and hail.
Was this in the context of "How dare thunder and hail get in Delta's way!"? :)

Herman 03-25-2013 08:27 AM
Ace.
 
Originally Posted by EMBFlyer (Post 1378593)
I personally did this for 25 passengers and my crew on the RJ 2 years ago when we diverted to an offline station. I never even heard from my chief pilot, let alone the national media.
Very important, please don't forget, you want "DATE OF HIRE!"

Sata 4000 RP 03-25-2013 08:46 AM
Originally Posted by EMBFlyer (Post 1379102)
Was this in the context of "How dare thunder and hail get in Delta's way!"? :)

lol No. This guy has been there 39 or 40 years and doesn't drink the Koolaid though he loves his job.

bcrosier 03-25-2013 09:18 AM
Originally Posted by V169 (Post 1378551)
A SWA Captain did the same thing in 2010 after a weather divert to Pueblo for storms in Denver. The TSA raised a stink afterwards because the airport didn't screen the pizzas before they were delivered to the jet!
A buddy of mine did that on an ATA flight back in 2003. We also ordered about 350 dinners from a local Mexican restaurant when the company messed up and forget to arrange catering for an L-1011 flight moving troops from the Midwest to the Middle East (I can't remember our departure airport at the moment. Far better than the normal catering, though there may have been some other "effects."

EMBFlyer 03-25-2013 10:24 AM
Originally Posted by Herman (Post 1379188)
Very important, please don't forget, you want "DATE OF HIRE!"
I'm a third-lister. I just want off first year pay.


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