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This is great. I thought that was a stupid idea from the beginning. I was on a flight from LGA to CLT en route to another destination and hadn’t flown USAir in a while and the flight attendant indicated she didn’t think they’d get rid of it because it reduced waste, etc. Good outcome but I always thought this policy was ridiculous. Free drinks for the flight is the minimum people in the cattle car should get.
You know, if they charged $1 it could have gone over ok. They’re just bilking you at $2. They would still make money at $1 since on sale soda costs 25 cents or less a can. With their volume I would imagine 20 cents or less.
I don’t see how US Air was making money off of selling soft drinks and water. In all the flights I have taken with this policy in place, I very rarely saw anyone purchase anything. Most passengers purchased something before they came on board. I would think it cost US Air more money, since they had to pay the fuel bill to carry around all the soft drinks that nobody bought.
As for US Air and being the top “On-time” airline. Anyone who has flown US Air and had to use either Philly or Charlotte as a hub, knows that’s a total joke. There is no such thing as an “on-time” US Air flight from those airports.