Less service, higher prices: the prescription for future airline travel. Some of the latest bad news:
Ø United Airlines next month will start offering chips, cookies and other snacks on some flights. Jumbo-size snacks, weighing four to five ounces, will sell for $3.
Ø United is also raising the price of alcoholic beverages for passengers flying coach in the US to $6.
Ø US Airways also plans to begin charging $2 for onboard sodas and $7 for alcoholic beverages starting next month.
If it’s any consolation, United still will distribute half-ounce bags of pretzels, its standard onboard snack, free to penny-pinching passengers. And its assortments of sodas and juices will remain free for now, although United won’t rule out charging for them in the future, said spokeswoman Robin Urbanski.
Report by David Wilkening
