Alaska Airlines to stop handing out prayer cards to passengers

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Alaska Airlines has decided that its 30-year practice of giving prayer cards to passengers — the last six years only in first class — is outdated and will stop doing it on Feb. 1.

By Melissa Allison
Seattle Times business reporter

Alaska Airlines' prayer cards always offended Gordon Bowker, not because the Seattle businessman cared what religion they represented, but because they suggested in-flight prayer was a good idea.

"I'd get a clutch in my stomach when I read it," said Bowker, who co-founded Starbucks and Redhook Ale Brewery.

"My reasoning was, if they put that card on the plate, they must be worried that something bad was going to happen. If they're worried, I'm worried."

So, Bowker took the ornery road and began reciting the prayers in his most resonant voice.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017329706_alaska26.html

[LiberalAndProud]

1. It's funny and fitting

in these days of prosperity theology that only first class passengers have been getting the prayer cards for the past six years. Seems Alaska Airlines saw no need to waste them on the unsaved, unwashed masses.