Another Airline Rip-Off

It’s the little sneaky things that annoy me when prices go up, much more than the bigger obvious things.

We’ve always quite enjoyed flying with Jet2 to Mallorca and have had no major problems. On our early outward flight instead of messing about with breakfast we have generally enjoyed a toasted ham and cheese sandwich which used to come with a “free” packet of crisps.

In the last 12 months things have changed in terms of pricing, here are the details:

In April 2017 a toasted ham and cheese sandwich was £3.95p and a “free” packet of crisps was also provided with it so the total cost was £3.95p.

In April 2018 a toasted ham and cheese sandwich on the same route will cost £4.20p and a packet of crisps will no longer be included, it will be available for an additional charge of 30p so the total cost would be £4.50p.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that for the same snack meal this represents an increase in the cost of almost 14% at a time when the current general inflation rate is below 3%.

Thanks for that Jet2, sadly all this does is annoy people and encourage them to not buy things on the plane. The answer is of course simple, if you feel you are being ripped off simply take a snack meal with you which is allowed as long as you are not taking liquids.

This was a few years back, daren’t imagine what the score is now.

Back To The Old Ways

Slow But Unhackable

Over the last few years I’ve started to become pretty sick and tired of a lot of the “modern” ways of doing things.

I just hate telephoning a company and almost invariably not getting through to a person but just having to select from endless lists before finally getting cut off just as I think I’m getting somewhere.

I’m sick and tired of finally contacting an organisation only to find that the person I get through to can’t deal with things, being given a promise that someone will be in touch, only to find that I hear nothing and have to start again.

I’ve had enough of sending emails into the ether to hear nothing for ages and to have to go through the whole procedure again or even worse to have to make that telephone call…. Select option 6….. Sorry, there is nobody available to take your call…

So I decided, where I could, to change things and to write letters. Yes, I type something out, print it, sign it, put it in an envelope with a stamp on it, post it and forget it. I even do this if all I want is the right person to contact me, it shifts the effort from me to “The Company”.

It’s been great, I find that almost invariably the right person gets back to me or the problem is just resolved without further contact and I hear no more. Going back to the old ways has really been a help to me, maybe it’s just the novelty value of people receiving a hand signed letter, who knows, but it’s worth a try.

Famous Typewriter Users

Not sure why but I thought it would be fun to pull together a few short video clips of famous users of the humble typewriter, in action.

Sadly the video of Sir Patrick Moore typing is no longer available online but here’s a couple.

Woody Allen.

And of course, Bob Dylan.