US Airways to Reward Belligerence With Free Drinks?

Travel Blog  •  Elyse Franko  •  08.05.08 | 10:30 AM ET

imageOn Friday, US Airways will begin charging customers for soft drinks, coffee and tea on domestic flights. For those who are balking at spending $2 for a Coke, do not despair—there’s a loophole, it seems. As the New York Times report suggests, all one has to do is be aggressive enough to set off a flight attendant’s peacekeeping powers. “We’re trained to keep order on an airplane and defuse confrontation,” Mike Flores, president of US Airways’ Association of Flight Attendants chapter, told the Times. “If it takes giving a free beverage to somebody to do that, so be it. I expect there will be flight attendants who just give everything away.”

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Tags: Air Travel, Humor, News and Briefs

Elyse Franko is a Long Island native, a graduate of the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., and a former World Hum intern. During her time at university, she wrote and edited for several campus publications and fostered her love for traveling by spending time abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany. She currently works as a teaching assistant in Vienna, Austria.


1 Comment for US Airways to Reward Belligerence With Free Drinks?

Tommy 08.05.08 | 12:26 PM ET

Sweet!  Does that include liquor or would tha tbe exacerbating hte situation.

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