The announcement from US Airways in June that it was going to start charging coach passengers $2 for soft drinks and bottled water — water! — on all its domestic flights, as well as $1 for coffee or tea, is only the latest sign that when it comes to flying these days, there increasingly is no such thing as a free lunch.
Well, the article goes on for a bit, and it's a bloody bore of an article so the EE will give you the precis version.
(On a side note, they used to teach the EE how to write precis versions in English class. Guess the journalists never attended an English class nor learnt how to put stuff in "tabular" format.)
Here's the precis:
All airlines are charging, and prices are retardedly high.Whoop-dee-doodle-doo!
Who didn't see that one coming? Raise your hands now. C'mon, c'mon, don't be shy.
This is news?!?
Anyway, for those prices, you could easily get a gourmet meal from Dean & Deluca "to go" and a half-bottle of wine (like Hannibal Lecter.)
Just to be really clear for those not in the "know" of New York stores, this is the store that the snooty matrons of Park Ave. hit when they want something "catered".
So crap airline food is being priced as pricier than the gourmé-ist of gourmet foods?!?
Looks like a "cannibalistic" death spiral to me.
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