A popular social media influencer offers tips for stealing food from airline lounges…it’s bad advice that should not be followed. I hope Delta bans this passenger from its lounges.
Bad Advice: Influencer Tells Followers To Steal Food From Delta SkyClub Lounge
I won’t name her, but you can see her video below. In it, she offers tips on bringing takeaway containers into an airline or Priority Pass lounge, then loading up so that you will not have to buy food on the plane. Her defense? “There is so much food in the lounges for you to eat…but they only give you a limited time to enter before your flight.”
She adds, “If you’re not taking takeout containers to the airport lounges with you, you are getting ripped off.”
No dear, you are the one ripping off the lounge and endangering lounge amenities for everyone else.
Her video below is filmed at the Delta SkyClub at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Terminal 3. It’s a superb lounge and one that Delta has thoughtfully and carefully invested in. But if people started copying this charlatan, who knows how much Delta (or any other lounge) might have to scale amenities back to compensate.
I’m giving her the notoriety of a post because her toxic advice could ruin the (already limited) lounge experience for you and me.
There are some lounges in which removing food and beverages is encouraged. Think United Club Fly lounges or Capital One Lounges.
But as The Bulkhead Seat points out, Delta explicitly says that food and drinks should not be removed from its lounges:
And doing so in blatant violation of the rules is grounds for being banned. I hope Delta sees her video and bans her from all SkyClubs and Delta One lounges. I realize her video may be more geared toward clicks than actual advice, but because of the injurious effect her advice promotes, I must call it out.
Sure, take a coffee or tea to go when there are to-go cups offered. But leave the food behind. Please don’t bring Tupperware or other takeout containers into an airline lounge. Respect the rules so that we all can continue to enjoy airline lounges the Delta SkyClub at LAX.
image: @healthyjunkfood / Instagram
Also, don’t steal toilet paper
“They don’t leave you enough time to eat” I think that sounds like a personal problem if she can’t figure out how teat the food in the three hours before a flight that they give you.
*to eat
So a banana is ok but not this much? Where is the line drawn? Until the rules are exact and universally enforced, I can see anyone being banned, including this attention seeking idiot.
As for her advice and her gimmick, is it any wonder people hate influencers?
She is a loathsome person. A lifetime ban is completely justified. Then she could move on to making videos about how to steal from or defraud some other place.
She needs to be banned not only from Delta, but also United and American clubs.
Dear Thieving Influencer,
Please invite us into your home so we can rob you.
Isn’t that the truth. This thief influencer isn’t self aware to think there is a difference.
I’ve finally found a constructive use for my Instagram account. I used it to share this influencer’s post with @Delta.
Should Mad Maxine have been banned for stealing a banana?
In my world, it is common sense to understand food at a buffet is all-you-can-eat to be consumed on site. Taking extra for later is stealing. However, I have encountered many people over the years that engage in just this type of piggish behavior.
BTW – the comments on her IG post are worth looking at. People are calling her out.
While traveling with us, a young teen friend of my son took sodas and food from a hotel lounge. When I asked why, he said “so he had something to eat later.” I gently told him not to do it again. He could either be prepared with snacks from home or to alert me if he was hungy, I would make sure he was comfortable.
I hope here is listeria in her future.
While I agree that bringing tupperware in crosses many lines and elevates this from a fringe benefit to stealing, I suppose let he who has not taken a banana from the lounge cast the first stone. I am sure that Delta is well aware that some folks take a small amount of food with them notwithstanding what the rules say. They don’t want to encourage it of course, but it’s baked in to the budget.
I’m personally much more interested in banning people who do not use headphones…
You really want soggy sandwiches, crackers, and whatever meat and cheese they have out? Unlike her, most of us have been to actual nice lounges, and I’m not sure I’d even want to take food away from those.
Oh no! I plead guilty because I have taken cookies. However they usually don’t make it past 5 steps after the exit. The crumbs are a dead giveaway. Please don’t report the Cookie Monster!
She sounds like the coworker who takes a dozen of the group doughnuts home or steals a coworker’s lunch from the group fridge.
Don’t you think you could find better things to do with your column than simping for corporations?
Do you live in a binary world where corporations = evil?
Yes. It’s right outside the lounge door.
Typical psychopath. They think they are so clever. Screw the consequences for the rest of the people.
Honestly allowing people to take food to go would combat overcrowding. Just take a container and leave.
Gross woman. She should stay home and tend to her kitchen.