Less service, higher prices appear to be the prescription for future airline travel in the USA, with some of the latest bad news for travellers including
** 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.
** United is also raising the price of alcoholic beverages for passengers flying coach in the US to $6.
** 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.
A Report by The Mole
