Beer price increased to $7 on AA
Jan 9, 2015, 2:56 am
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Beer price increased to $7 on AA
Jan 9, 2015, 3:22 am
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No frozen mugs to go with a $7 beer? Anyway, I truly wonder how many people are going to pay $7 for a beer on a plane. There's always going to be someone, sure, and airplane pax are a captive audience, but I'm willing to bet that they'll sell fewer beers and make less money because they're pricing it out of many people's ballparks.
Sam Adams is also gonna be next on the chopping block, I'm afraid...
Sam Adams is also gonna be next on the chopping block, I'm afraid...
Jan 9, 2015, 3:29 am
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Oh dear, my business "expense" report will be increasing this month...
Jan 9, 2015, 4:24 am
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Isn't another one of those "upgrades" that came from the US side of the company?
Jan 9, 2015, 4:54 am
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Sam Adams is also gonna be next on the chopping block, I'm afraid...
Jan 9, 2015, 5:00 am
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I avoid buy beer on the flight, its never cold, and well most of the time they never have anything I would drink..
Jan 9, 2015, 6:53 am
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Still free in the Admiral's Club.
$450 AC membership pays for itself after 90 $5 beers...
$450 AC membership pays for itself after 90 $5 beers...
Jan 9, 2015, 6:59 am
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Jan 9, 2015, 7:02 am
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Jan 9, 2015, 7:14 am
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Even when beer was $6 and liquor $7, the crappy AA beer selection made it an easy decision to go with the liquor.
Jan 9, 2015, 7:36 am
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LOL!!!! Can't say they don't have balls.....
Cheers,
AA777
Cheers,
AA777
Jan 9, 2015, 7:52 am
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No frozen mugs to go with a $7 beer? Anyway, I truly wonder how many people are going to pay $7 for a beer on a plane. There's always going to be someone, sure, and airplane pax are a captive audience, but I'm willing to bet that they'll sell fewer beers and make less money because they're pricing it out of many people's ballparks.
Sam Adams is also gonna be next on the chopping block, I'm afraid...
Sam Adams is also gonna be next on the chopping block, I'm afraid...
But hey, it wouldn't be an average day on FT if we didn't have something complain about...
Regards
Jan 9, 2015, 8:07 am
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Anyhow, it's basic economics, and presumably AA knows the demand curve better than any of us.
Jan 9, 2015, 8:07 am
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Hmmm, I thought their buying power would of increased as a result of the merger, and thus reducing their per item cost for catering, and off course passing is down to their customers 
What happened??
What happened??
Jan 9, 2015, 9:01 am
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An incremental $1 to help medicate through the Y experience?
Sounds like a bargain to me.
Sounds like a bargain to me.