Frequent travelers who either appreciated or were offended by Alaska Airlines' practice of distributing prayer cards to passengers will be displeased, or happy, to learn that the 30-year practice will end on Feb. 1.
For the last six years, only first-class passengers were presented with the paper cards, usually at meal time.
A Seattle Times story states that Alaska Air Group CEO Bill Ayer, and Alaska Airlines President Brad Tilden, delivered this email Wednesday to regular customers:
"This difficult decision was not made lightly. Some of you enjoy the cards and associate them with our service. At the same time, we've heard from many of you who believe religion is inappropriate on an airplane, and some are offended when we hand out the cards."
The email also contained this passage: "Our priority at Alaska is to fly our passengers to their destinations safely, on time and with their bags."
The airline began passing out prayer cards in the 1970s in an effort, an Alaska spokesman once told the Christian Post, to "fancy up the meal service since many folks like to give thanks before a meal."
How about people just stop being such overly sensitive weenies and don't get so personally offended about such things ... if you don't want a card just say "NO THANK YOU" ...
Posted by: Jesus | Jan 26, 2012 at 05:36 AM