American Airlines: No more booze
sales onboard until mask mandate
ends (except in business and first class)
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
5/31/2021 6:51:34 AM
Listen up, proles: your failure to unquestioningly obey the useless mask mandate is going to cost you. The surge in passenger misbehavior on airlines, partially attributable to mask mandate resistance, is ending steerage class passengers their access to intoxicants while airborne. American Airlines has announced that it:
…will delay selling alcoholic beverages this summer to main cabin passengers due to the uptick in bad passenger behavior in recent months that includes refusing to wear masks (snip) Ruling class members can relax, though. Those who can come up with the money for business and first class seats apparently are exempt from the booze ban
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/31/2021 7:04:23 AM (No. 801434)
As usual the privileged get the goodies and the peons suck eggs.
35 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/31/2021 7:13:33 AM (No. 801440)
True, though i do not believe the brawls were happening in first class section.
16 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/31/2021 7:16:16 AM (No. 801442)
Yes, we've seen the videos lately and there seems to be a pattern in terms of the ,um, class of the perpetrators.
34 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 5/31/2021 7:19:05 AM (No. 801443)
Yes the elites can always have what they want. Remember your place peons.
22 people like this.
My husband just spent way too many hours in the Dubai airport and they have goons out patrolling and giving out $1000 fines for people caught not wearing a mask....while waiting to get on a 14 hour flight!
I don't understand why airlines and airports need to enforce anything regarding masks. People who are sick should be at home, and probably prohibited from flying. People who are well, can wear a mask for the rest of their lives, if they are still of the opinion that the virus particles are in any way restricted by their mask. They should feel perfectly safe, regardless of whether I wear a mask.
23 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/31/2021 7:31:15 AM (No. 801453)
Who wants their overpriced booze?
16 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
GO3 5/31/2021 7:37:20 AM (No. 801462)
But at least in Dubai, you can get a drink.
Anyway, Lifson has a point in the gov't, approved mergers. Continuous growth models have led to the flying cattle cars we see today. Even flying in coach used to be special; now it truly is steerage in every sense of the word. I've had more room on a C-141 configured for passengers than I have on a civilian airliner in the last 15 years.
18 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 5/31/2021 7:40:12 AM (No. 801464)
I don’t know what it would take for me to fly again. Between the masks and Amish and cozy seating......it’s just not fun anymore.
37 people like this.
I think this is a positive. Why they ever started it is beyond me. I might understand a glass of wine with a dinner on a long flight but if you can't get through a few hours without a drink perhaps you should be attending an AA meeting instead of flying anyway.
27 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/31/2021 8:15:38 AM (No. 801492)
How about no more American Airlines until the mask mandate ends?
40 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/31/2021 8:15:45 AM (No. 801493)
One more example of discrimination being pushed by the corporate world. I smell a few lawsuits in the near future.
17 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mr C 5/31/2021 8:19:45 AM (No. 801499)
The Bankrupt AA however sells you Woke Coke and a View of the Left Wing if you sit on the Left Side and have a copy of 'Critical Race' on display!
14 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/31/2021 8:37:17 AM (No. 801513)
This isn’t about covid or anyone’s health or alcoholism. It’s about control. Never before gave the airlines required anyone to wear a mask through any flu season or previous respiratory virus outbreak like H1N1.
25 people like this.
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras (or untouchables)? Have a good long weekend.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sanddollar 5/31/2021 8:54:00 AM (No. 801526)
Doesn't matter to me. I don't drink alcohol. Have a drink if you need one before you board the plane.
8 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/31/2021 9:05:01 AM (No. 801534)
You generally don't stay in business very long by lecturing and then psing off your customers. American, you had better wake up and smell the coffee here. You do have rather stiff competition, you know.
15 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 5/31/2021 9:06:25 AM (No. 801537)
I don't drink alcohol while flying, so I really don't care. However, the chaos seems to be on Southwest flights for the most part anyway, and I don't think booze has anything to do with it. Every story I've seen never mentions the passenger was loaded.
12 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/31/2021 9:12:17 AM (No. 801545)
Booze isn't the problem
23 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
MissGrits 5/31/2021 9:16:01 AM (No. 801554)
And besides, don’t you know if you sit in first class or business class you can’t get or spread Covid! They long since have blown their cover about Covid being a health issue! What a bunch of morons!
15 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
jj1319 5/31/2021 9:31:42 AM (No. 801570)
Herb Kelleher would be shocked.
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/31/2021 9:52:14 AM (No. 801586)
75% of airlines planes are parked, and the airlines are being paid not to fly. Isn't it a little insulting for taxpayers to be ordered around, denied a drink, after paying for the ticket, the airplanes, and the salaries of the personnel? I wonder if the airlines would like to stand up and say thank you American taxpayers for all you do.
10 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/31/2021 10:44:30 AM (No. 801664)
Whether passengers like to imbibe on flights or not, it's pure punishment. And if you you smelly lowlifes in steerage don't behave you'll loose your ration of peanuts, too. No in flight movies for a week!
7 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
qr4j 5/31/2021 10:56:36 AM (No. 801685)
American Airlines ... or Communist Chinese Airlines? With a Biden pResidency, they are one and the same. How much ya making off the Chinese, Joe??
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
FLCracker 5/31/2021 11:01:40 AM (No. 801693)
Because business and first class have a different air supply than the rest of the plane, right?
8 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
janjan 5/31/2021 11:08:32 AM (No. 801713)
For those of you who aren’t impacted, don’t drink, or think this is ‘positive’, think for a minute about what this really means. This isn’t about whether a passenger wants a drink or not. It’s about Socialism and two sets of rules. Remember that when they come after something you do care about.
10 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 5/31/2021 11:53:20 AM (No. 801776)
Seats are larger and further apart in business and first class, just saying.
3 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/31/2021 12:00:57 PM (No. 801799)
Hypocrites. As someone who flies a fair amount, I can tell you that people get just as snockered and out of control in Business and First Class as in coach. I rarely if ever drink on board an aircraft, regardless of seating, but this is sure to lose AA a boatload of customers. I'd be willing to bet the AA CEO made his decision to placate the Flight Attendants Union.
6 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 5/31/2021 12:26:59 PM (No. 801825)
I switched to first class when I retired and realized that I could afford the better seating and food.
But I WON'T be flying as long as these pukes insist on masks, even if they give better service in first.
And a relative was a pilot for American for many years, came away truly hating the airline. I won't fly on American, ever.
7 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/31/2021 1:18:20 PM (No. 801897)
Somewhere along the line, airlines seemed to have forgotten that we are PAYING CUSTOMERS. I can remember a time where airline employees treated their customers like customers and not cattle.
I haven't been on an aircraft since 2009. Driving is cheaper and far less irritating.
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Penney 5/31/2021 3:35:44 PM (No. 801990)
The headline says it all! It's almost funny but not quite.
2 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/31/2021 5:05:24 PM (No. 802055)
#4 Pay extra and avoid the goon-outs.
1 person likes this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
local500 6/1/2021 5:29:14 AM (No. 802349)
Another step towards full compliance with sharia law.
They just use "people are fighting" excuse.
They would ban in from business and first class next.
2 people like this.
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