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Traveling Internationally? Have A Drink on American Airlines
American Airlines invites customers to raise a glass. Beginning Feb. 1, customers traveling in the main cabin on American's international flights between the U.S. and Europe, Asia, and certain countries in South America can enjoy beer and wine - compliments of the airline - as part of the inflight beverage service. (www.marketwatch.com) More...
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AAl has pgraded quite a bit.
Could this be the beginning of a reversal from no frills?
Probably not, American is doing a lot of things to try and help their image during the bankruptcy.
Probably won't sit too well with the stockholders who have lost their shirts.
Including money they don't have? Wonder how the bankruptcy judge will look upon this type of expenditure.
All airlines get to buy beverages alcoholic and non-alc at very low prices -below whosesale- as it is a way to promote brands among passengers so don´t shed tears for what AA is doing.
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What are you talking about, less airlnes means less competition and higher prices.
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The US commercial aviation traffic is greater than the rest of the world combined that is why two airlines as you suggest would be hell for the passengers. Indeed a lot of legacy airlines went kaputt but it was due to horribly bad management. Just to mention a single example: Pan Am bought whole fleets or airplanes on a whim, they never had a methodical approach explaning in detail why X number of planes of a given type (2, 3 or 4 engines) are need for the next 5 years on such and such routes. You can fill hundreds of books detailing the mistakes all those airlines made. And right now some of those mistakes continue to be made: i.e. bloated or excessive fleets chasing the same number of passengers. You can go to the deserts in Arizona and California and see hundreds of aircraft roasting in the sun some of which can be used effectively now but, no, better buy new ones, and their balance sheets are being printed in RED NUMBERS even before Sep. 11.
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Whenever a company, any company, enjoys a monopolistic or duopolistic position first of all the prices go up because of the eternal and inevitable law of supply vs. demand, and secondly the service does not necessarily improve, why should they spend any money to provide good service if they have the clients by the you-know-whats. Nothing beats competition, nothing. As for the size of traffic measured in terms of passenger-miles per year or also in terms of number of aircraft in their fleets, the U.S. gobbles Europe and China in a heart beat. Visit the ICAO site and search for the statistics.
