After the miraculous water landing of a US Airways Airbus in the frigid Hudson River on January 15 with no loss of life, people were feeling benign toward the carrier. Good feelings only go so far, however. The airline was the only major airline to charge coach passengers for non-alcoholic beverages ($1 for coffee or tea; $2 for bottled water or soft drinks). This annoyed passengers like me, who recently flew Denver-Charlotte and Charlotte-JFK.
As of March 1, these booze-free beverages will again be free. "The beverage program was distracting from the outstanding improvements in on-time performance and baggage handling U.S. Airways' 34,000 employees worked so hard to achieve last year," was the way a US Airways spokesman explained it, trying to put a good spin on a bad policy. The carrier will continue to charge for include checked baggage, certain desirable seats and the new "U.S. Airways Power-Nap Sack," which is their marketing term for a blanket and a pillow.
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