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Related: About this forumOMG! Alaska Airlines discontinues controversial prayer cards!
In a memo sent to its frequent fliers Wednesday, Alaska Airlines announced that the prayer cards it has been providing to passengers on meal trays for the past 30 years will be discontinued as of Feb. 1.
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OMG! Alaska Airlines discontinues controversial prayer cards! (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jan 2012
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MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)1. Probably just a cost-cutting measure. They are ..
probably running out of them, and don't want to pay for another printing.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)2. I'm sorry
I know it is juvenile but if I was on airplane and got one of those I would make a loud and showy point of throwing that dumb shit away. I don't think I'd be able to help myself.
Maybe I need to work on that.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)3. Good!
We are Southwest customers rather than Alaska customers because of those ridiculous things.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)4. Damn, what the hell will pick my teeth with on that plane!
You can tell some of these were used for that, looking at the edges
iris27
(1,951 posts)5. Good. One of the local Mexican restaurants that we like (Chuy's) wraps its silverware in little
white paper bags with a dinner prayer on the back. Drives me up the wall.