Just wanted to list all the different things that happened on my United flight to LHR this morning. All of this is under the umbrella that I absolutely know that by far the most important thing is that I arrived at my destination safely. Also, none of these things were the FA's fault; they were great the whole flight.
1. Flight was oversold and gate agents were desperately offering $800 travel vouchers to fly 12 hours later.
2. Flight was delayed due to maintenance paperwork.
3. Captain never said hello or how long the flight would be.
4. The entire plane was bundled up into the heaviest layers possible due to the unrelenting AC that the FAs could do nothing about.
5. Entertainment system had to be reset 5 minutes into the flight and then for the duration of the flight the map was not working.
6. As the plane was climbing out the FAs informed us that service would be slow since they were two FAS short that morning. They specifically said that not enough FAs were assigned to our flight. I guess they were at the bare minimum to be safe to fly?
7. I ordered a veggie meal and was informed that United no longer does veggie meals, only asian veggie meals. Neither myself or my neighbor's confirmed veggie meal orders were listed in the manifest, despite the FA telling us that if we ordered regular veggie, we would have come up as an "unfulfilled request."
8. The meal choice for the meat eaters was chicken. That was it. No standard "chicken or beef." Just chicken.
9. They were only serving juice, water, tea and coffee plus alcoholic drinks. No soda for some reason?
10. Both my tray table and my "TV" handles were broken(was sitting in exit row).
Obviously none of these are that huge of a deal on their own, but to have all of them happen on a 7 hour flight made me really wonder what the heck was going on.
1. Flight was oversold and gate agents were desperately offering $800 travel vouchers to fly 12 hours later.
2. Flight was delayed due to maintenance paperwork.
3. Captain never said hello or how long the flight would be.
4. The entire plane was bundled up into the heaviest layers possible due to the unrelenting AC that the FAs could do nothing about.
5. Entertainment system had to be reset 5 minutes into the flight and then for the duration of the flight the map was not working.
6. As the plane was climbing out the FAs informed us that service would be slow since they were two FAS short that morning. They specifically said that not enough FAs were assigned to our flight. I guess they were at the bare minimum to be safe to fly?
7. I ordered a veggie meal and was informed that United no longer does veggie meals, only asian veggie meals. Neither myself or my neighbor's confirmed veggie meal orders were listed in the manifest, despite the FA telling us that if we ordered regular veggie, we would have come up as an "unfulfilled request."
8. The meal choice for the meat eaters was chicken. That was it. No standard "chicken or beef." Just chicken.
9. They were only serving juice, water, tea and coffee plus alcoholic drinks. No soda for some reason?
10. Both my tray table and my "TV" handles were broken(was sitting in exit row).
Obviously none of these are that huge of a deal on their own, but to have all of them happen on a 7 hour flight made me really wonder what the heck was going on.