Blankets

[desertfox]

Now that Frontier and JetBlue have broken the ice on doing away with blankets....do you think AA will finally see the light and get rid of blankets on domestic flights, except for transcon, at some point.

Blankets are a major pain when it comes to turning a flight around, they are dirty and take up valuable overhead space. GET RID OF THEM!

 

[SkydrolJunkie]

Now that Frontier and JetBlue have broken the ice on doing away with blankets....do you think AA will finally see the light and get rid of blankets on domestic flights, except for transcon, at some point.

Blankets are a major pain when it comes to turning a flight around, they are dirty and take up valuable overhead space. GET RID OF THEM!

Yup, passenger comfort is not a priority at AA.

 

[jimntx]

It's not a question of passenger comfort. It's a question of passenger health. I think desertfox understated the problem. The blankets are not dirty; they are filthy nasty.

At least at STL, the outside company contracted to do the overnight cleaning is either unable or unwilling to make a value judgement as to when a blanket needs to be removed from the a/c and cleaned. Just the other day, I was taking the blankets out of the o/h bin in FC to put in the blanket pockets (first flight of the day). Two of the blankets were stiff with dried god only knows what. I think if the local health departments got involved none of the airlines would have blankets to be passed out that weren't sealed in plastic at the factory or laundry.

But, on the subject of passenger comfort...I do not think that the airlines should be responsible for the fact that people get on the a/c half-naked then complain that they are too cold/too hot/too whatever. Some of the "travel outfits" I have seen lately make me want to go out in the yard to find a stick to poke out my mind's eye with.

 

[Barfbag]

Now that Frontier and JetBlue have broken the ice on doing away with blankets....do you think AA will finally see the light and get rid of blankets on domestic flights, except for transcon, at some point.

Blankets are a major pain when it comes to turning a flight around, they are dirty and take up valuable overhead space. GET RID OF THEM!

I believe JBLU is selling blankets onboard, not getting rid of them.

Yes; I agree that the blankets are a problem. Folding these nasty things and then stuffing a filthy pillow with a clean case, should not happen, but it does millons of times a day systemwide.

The problem here at JFK is that every international inbound is merely turned-cleaned, not overnight cleaned. So blankets are just folded, clean or dirty. To make matters worse, just a few new blankets can be carried on each truck, because of the oversized F/C duvets taking up so much space of our trucks.

Since the aircraft continuously turn, these blankets remain onboard on foreign and domestic soil, until they are so soiled that someone smells something rancid, or can't pry them apart to fold them and discards them, about ten blankets a month.

On flights that do overnight and the blankets should be removed they aren't. That's because the overnight cleaning company AirServ, cuts corners and does turn cleans when then should be overnights.

The local management team is merely looking the other way, they say they QC flights that AirServ does, but it's just another paper chase, no one wants to rock the boat. As long as there are no delays everyone's happy.

The bottom line here is, bring your own blanket, pillow, meal, ipod and toilet tissue.

Good-bye, have a nice day. Wave, wave, smile smile. NEXT cattlecar.

 

[eolesen]

Based on how many blankets we used to have to send out on a weekly basis, way more than ten per month are being tossed....

Average life for a blanket was supposedly six months or eight to twelve washes, whichever came first. 😉

 

[ILS2MINIMUMS]

Blankets on AA planes are used for padding and dampening the LRBL. They won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[kuro_kuma]

I'm surprised how many people want to touch those. When I commute, I bring my own pashima. For the many that end up on the floor, there are always several with someone's shoes or barefeet (I'm not sure which is worse) on them. Might as well give them recycled napkins to wipe their faces with also.

 

[BigBangTheory]

They make great galley floor rags too!!!

 

[ReadyNow]

They make great galley floor rags too!!!

Get rid of blankets and pillows....offer them for sale on international...they just get in the way...

 

[WingNaPrayer]

FAs on last flight of the day should divvy up the blankets and take them home or to their hotel and launder them as part of their duties.

The cockpit crew can take the pillows.

The duvets were nice and comfy when they first started but even they are starting to smell like cat ass.

 

[jimntx]

FAs on last flight of the day should divvy up the blankets and take them home or to their hotel and launder them as part of their duties.

Don't give the company any ideas, Mr. Smarty.

The duvets were nice and comfy when they first started but even they are starting to smell like cat ass.

I have 3 cats, sir. How dare you suggest that they smell worse than our blankets and duvets! I'm calling the SPCA. :angry:

 

[BigBangTheory]

FAs on last flight of the day should divvy up the blankets and take them home or to their hotel and launder them as part of their duties.

I have a two words for you:

The first is a word that has four letters and begins with an F. The second has three letters and begins with a Y.

 

[Barfbag]

FAs on last flight of the day should divvy up the blankets and take them home or to their hotel and launder them as part of their duties.

The cockpit crew can take the pillows.

The duvets were nice and comfy when they first started but even they are starting to smell like cat ass.

The duvets should be reduced, and replaced by a wool blankets that have to be dry-cleaned. 100%Wool Blankets won't hold these odors, but the current duvets are simply washed and folded, rarely properly dried, resulting in this moldy scent.

A limited number of F/C duvets can be stowed onboard the A/C and only given to at the passenger's request, first come, first served basis and then only used a as mattress pad, not a blanket.

On TWA's Ambassador's service a fitted sheet was draped over each F/C, the duvets were rarely used, but the wool blankets, were always in demand. There were no duvets for business class seats.

TWA= great service, bad management.

 

[WingNaPrayer]

😉 ^_^ 😉

 

[desertfox]

Now that Frontier and JetBlue have broken the ice on doing away with blankets....do you think AA will finally see the light and get rid of blankets on domestic flights, except for transcon, at some point.

Blankets are a major pain when it comes to turning a flight around, they are dirty and take up valuable overhead space. GET RID OF THEM!

I don't get a blanket when I go to the movie theater, why should passengers expect to be provided one, except for the historical tradition which long ago became obsolete.
The cleaning process is slowed down, a/c cleaners folding like they are handling the Shroud of Turin.....

Passenger comfort would be better served by improvement in food, attitude, timeliness rather than by having nasty blankets on board.

If they are sold- fine then the passenger either takes them with them or they get thrown away......civilization has held together with the absence of pillows on domestic non-transcon flights....the same will hold true with the end of free on board blankets.