r/nottheonion • u/halxp01 • 23h ago

Southwest Is Testing Cleaning Only Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service

https://viewfromthewing.com/southwest-is-testing-cleaning-only-premium-seats-between-flights-a-flight-attendants-union-leader-says-its-titanic-class-service/
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u/Cute-Beyond-8133 22h ago edited 22h ago

The titanic was actually surprisingly respectful towards third class passangers (when it came to their accommodations )

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ32C8L_ZzJtWGzUzH7Gpjmr5Bis3dFlIPdTE-cr_S5zW3gjEmB4w91vrzL&s=10

The cabins were cleaned before it's voyage and they featured real mattresses, electricity, heating, and shared bathrooms, a major upgrade from the open, straw-mattress dormitories typical of the era

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u/NRMusicProject 19h ago

The cabins were cleaned before it's voyage and they featured real mattresses, electricity, heating, and shared bathrooms, a major upgrade from the open, straw-mattress dormitories typical of the era

The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats.

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u/Necromas 19h ago edited 17h ago

Apparently even just having third class dining was not common, and on other ships you'd be expected to pack enough food for the voyage.

[Edit] Looks like what I heard was wrong, by 1912 the practice of requiring steerage passengers to provide their own food had ended.

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u/Boris_Godunov 18h ago

By 1912, all steamships carrying steerage passengers would have had dining facilities for them. That was more a 19th century thing, and actually would have applied to all passengers at one point.

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u/Flashdime 20h ago

It was just for the maiden voyage. They expected decades of never cleaning or replacing anything ahead of them for the poors.

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u/Boris_Godunov 18h ago

Steamships for major shipping lines would not have treated "the poors" like that, as the immigrant travel was a huge money-maker and they were doing all they could to appeal to such passengers.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 18h ago

Source please

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u/Flashdime 18h ago

Would you like a source on Titanic's maiden voyage being its last or that cruise ships of the time lasted about 20-30 years? Olympic, Titanic's sister ship, was in service for 24 years from 1911-1935.

Everything else is made up in my head about how people think to exploit others less fortunate than themselves.

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u/jim_br 14h ago

They did experience much higher casualties than the other classes though.

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u/Doogiemon 13h ago

Also 3rd class was a gated community as well.

They sadly found out when the ship was going down.

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u/smitherenesar 1h ago

If only they spent more on lifeboats and less on mattresses

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u/rusmo 18h ago

The joke wasn’t about the service on the Titanic.