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Old Dec 16, 2019 | 7:28 pm
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Originally Posted by AS Flyer
Your argument really doesn't have any legs. The term "Pub Service" is just an internal term for a limited beverage service. I don't see anything anywhere that says "Pub Service" as advertised to passengers. In fact, the only thing with respect to service I see at all is meal service. I don't see anywhere they guarantee a beverage service on any flight - or lack of. It may be nice for you to know if there is going to be a beverage offered, and at least one airline does show if a "refreshment" is offered - but even that doesn't indicate if it's a water service or a full beverage service. It's completely absurd to say that Alaska specifically does anything just to anger passengers. Nobody anywhere in the company is sitting around thinking or saying, "Hmmmmm, how can we make our passengers more angry and irritate them".
Then, when I ask for some fancy cocktail, and then when the FA responds, "what, do you think this is a bar?," would it be wrong to me to reply "well, I thought this was pub service!"
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