Free in-flight snacks

Travel & Leisure magazine has an article (which originally appeared on money.com) about a change of heart by the heartless:

“Whaaaaat’s the deal with those airline peanuts,” Jerry Seinfeld once mused.
It’s possible that an entire generations of young Americans never understood that joke on syndication, blissfully ignorant of the free-snack drought that has plagued air travel for years.
But the drought is over.
Late last year, United re-broke the snowed-in path, and announced it was bringing back the complimentary snacks about which Seinfeld joked (often apocryphally). Starting on 1 February 2017, early morning flights will offer waffle-like treats, and mid-morning travelers get a savory snack mix, flavored pretzel sticks, or other similar fare.
Now American has announced that, starting this month, it will offer Biscoff cookies on early morning flights, and the choice or cookies or pretzels for flights that leave after 0945. There will also be complimentary meals between Hawai'i and Dallas-Fort Worth, something that recently has been reserved for international flights.
Additionally, American plans to ramp up its complimentary in-flight entertainment, adding tons of television, movies, and albums to choose from.

Rico says that, as usual, it's after he and the fiancée took an American flight and had to pay...