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Continental to start selling mojitos, other cocktails
chicagobreakingbusiness.com ^ | 6/30/10 | Alejandra Cancino

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cocktails; continental; mojitos; selling

1 posted on 06/30/2010 6:56:39 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: cll

Ping?


2 posted on 06/30/2010 6:57:12 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: Nachum

No one will ever convince me that it’s a good idea to serve booze on planes.


3 posted on 06/30/2010 6:58:45 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: Nachum

Once you see the prices you need a drink.


4 posted on 06/30/2010 6:59:23 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: rickmichaels

You do understand that the mojito is not for the pilot?


5 posted on 06/30/2010 7:01:10 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Nachum; mojitojoe

ping


6 posted on 06/30/2010 7:02:27 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: rickmichaels

A flying bar....what could possibly go wrong?


7 posted on 06/30/2010 7:09:54 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Nachum
Sorry but booze doesn't do it for me to travel by air, they need to provide Valium at the airport just to help calm passengers in order to "experience" the traveling "pleasure."

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.

8 posted on 06/30/2010 7:10:13 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Nachum

Can I sit next to Christopher Walken? He's a regular at the Continental.

9 posted on 06/30/2010 7:20:35 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Nachum

The original 747s had a piano bar.
10 posted on 06/30/2010 7:34:39 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Nachum

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.”


11 posted on 06/30/2010 7:39:08 PM PDT by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: Nachum

I’d buy a couple of mojitos if they would check my bag for free!


12 posted on 06/30/2010 7:43:26 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: keepitreal
That's an interesting marketing idea. Free check in for the purchase of coupons for airline drinks. Can be used on any flights.

Your pub in the sky...

13 posted on 06/30/2010 7:47:59 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Just thinking about this situation, I can hear the snoring already.


14 posted on 06/30/2010 7:51:56 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Just thinking about this situation, I can hear the snoring already.

I heard the snoring on the plane this morning...

15 posted on 07/01/2010 4:02:05 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: zerosix
I'm ready for auto travel in all but the most dire straits.

Me too, but need a driver to get me from Seattle to Atlanta.

16 posted on 07/01/2010 4:05:19 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: ReneeLynn; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; earlJam; Gamecock
If it's not Hennigan's, I'm not going.


17 posted on 07/01/2010 4:18:46 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Too funny.

I have been working in the yard for the last couple of hours with the Hennigans’ song going thru my mind.


18 posted on 07/01/2010 6:13:50 PM PDT by earlJam
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