BOEING PLANE — Flight attendants have finally begun walking up and down the aisle of a flight currently 30,000 feet in the air and handing out little complimentary bags of leftover nuts, bolts, screws, wiring, and other airplane pieces.
“Nuts or bolts? There you go. Nuts or bolts? Enjoy,” the flight attendant said, moving from one passenger to the next. “Is he asleep? Do you want to take his bag of electrical wiring?”
“It’s just nice someone appreciates all this stuff,” the flight attendant added of the complimentary treats after finishing the parts service. “The maintenance guys who used to use it all got laid off months ago so it’s just been sitting gathering dust.”
The free treats were reportedly a welcome change for many frequent flyers aboard the flight, who say airlines have become too stingy with in-flight freebies.
“It was nice that they offered me a complimentary cup of engine coolant — no charge,” Tammi Jones said from seat 34B. “They threw in an entire jug of lubricant completely free. It was unopened and they said they didn’t know what it was for anyways.”
Passengers were also reportedly happy with a special in-flight credit card promotion which allowed new customers to come into the cockpit and break off any piece of the equipment they could manage to carry away.
“I always try to get in on the right promotions — you really have to nowadays,” Helen Burns, 67, said while tucking the plane’s black box into her overhead compartment. “My grandson is going to love this thing.”
As of press time, passengers on the flight were huddled around a single working cellphone taking turns saying goodbye to friends and family one last time.
