Midwest Airlines
Ok, on my previous post I mentioned how I went back to Milwaukee for the first time in 7 years. Well, I flew Midwest Airlines. Midwest Airlines used to be Midwest Express Airlines and I used to work for Midwest way back in the day. Midwest always had a reputation as “the best care in the air”. Their whole deal was 2 across leather seating, dining on fine china, and hot freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Well it seems they don’t do any of that anymore or at least part of the time.
I was first of all shocked when I was browsing their website the night before my flight to see what gourmet meal I would be getting. I was horrified to find that I would have to pay $7-10 for the meal. Looking further at the fine print I discovered that there are no meals from the west coast. Therefore I would have none!!! When I got on the plane they acutally had a stale english muffin with a hunk of sausage for $7. No china or silverware, it was in a BOX!!!!! Then later on my return flight I did get some chocolate chip cookies, but they were COLD!!!! WHAT HAPPENED! MIDWEST USED TO BE BY FAR, BY FAAAAR, THE BEST CARE IN THE AIR! But now they’re just like everyone else. I’m told that some of their planes don’t even have leather seating. What’s the point? Why would I want to fly them anymore? Plus, most (not all) of the flight attendants were bitter and surly. What on Earth is going on behind the scenes at Midwest?
Wait, don’t even get me started on the shithole that is Kansas City airport, where I had a 3 hour and 15 minute layover. It was supposed to be a 2 hour layover, but the plane was late. The MCI airport bars and newsstands don’t stay open past 8pm. The passengers on our delayed flight just wandered aimlessly around a dead airport, like some Twilight Zone episode. Don’t you think Midwest could have talked someone into keeping a bar open for it’s inconvenienced passengers? Or at least gave us a free coke or something?
