Can I sit next to Christopher Walken? He's a regular at the Continental.
Posted on 06/30/2010 6:56:34 PM PDT by Nachum
Continental Airlines is joining the buy-on-board menu wars with specialty cocktails. The airline announced Wednesday that it will start selling mojitos, pomegranate martinis and Red Bull energy drinks.
Starting Thursday, customers will be able to buy the drinks with alcohol for $9 and without it for $3.Continental joins other airlines in getting creative with the drinks they’re selling, going well beyond mini bottles of booze. Southwest Airlines sells a $4 screwdriver, a mix of vodka and orange juice. Delta sells a $7 Five O’clock Somewhere, a mix of rum, orange juice and cranberry-apple juice.
Though airlines charge for alcoholic beverages, such as beer and wine, the new drinks are the latest effort to increase revenue. In the last two years, airlines began to aggressively charge fees for services that were once free, including checking in bags, changing seats or flying stand by.
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Ping?
No one will ever convince me that it’s a good idea to serve booze on planes.
Once you see the prices you need a drink.
You do understand that the mojito is not for the pilot?
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A flying bar....what could possibly go wrong?
Having just completed two back-to-back trips (encountering not less than 4 "Michelle Obama" wanna-bes, complete with the attitude, I'm ready for auto travel in all but the most dire straits.
Can I sit next to Christopher Walken? He's a regular at the Continental.
It would be nice if the airlines acted like they did in the 80’s and before, but that will never happen again. We are prisoners on the plane by government edict, and the airlines could care less about the cattle (I mean the passengers). The security headache, crappy service, etc. makes flying nothing but a necessary evil. I avoid it like the plague and whenever a pilot or stewardess (sorry, attendant) speaks to me while leaving the plane, wishing I had a good experience and they hope to see me again, I either totally ignore them or give them a split second glare that plainly says “cut the crap and let me get off this plane.”
I’d buy a couple of mojitos if they would check my bag for free!
Your pub in the sky...
Just thinking about this situation, I can hear the snoring already.
I heard the snoring on the plane this morning...
Me too, but need a driver to get me from Seattle to Atlanta.
Too funny.
I have been working in the yard for the last couple of hours with the Hennigans’ song going thru my mind.
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