[Kirkwood]

The “free” food and drinks were never free. You paid for that stuff in the price of your ticket.

[cw35]

“The “free” food and drinks were never free. You paid for that stuff in the price of your ticket.”

Well now you pay the same price for the ticket but don’t get the free meal so it was in fact free.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The “free” food and drinks were never free. You paid for that stuff in the price of your ticket.

And presumably we still will - except now we won't get the food and drinks we're paying for. But in the long list of reasons I have to avoid air travel these days, this issue isn't near the top.

In my opinion, the airlines and the TSA have done more to destroy the air travel industry than fuel prices and al-Qaeda.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"The “free” food and drinks were never free. You paid for that stuff in the price of your ticket."

Well, sure. But one of the perks in business class has been a decent meal. And UAL's meals were usually superb. More than a few times, I've returned home from a trip thinking that the business-class meal was the best on the whole trip!

One more reason to question my loyalty to UAL, then. And one less reason to pay for business class.

I have to imagine that the savings in pretzels and business class meals will be more than offset by the loss of people like me who fly a lot and see less and less reason to stick with UA. I wish them well but will be looking around.