Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) — United Airlines, struggling to curb losses from record fuel prices, will become the first U.S. carrier to stop serving free meals in the coach cabin of some overseas flights.
Instead, the second-largest U.S. carrier will offer food that can be purchased aboard trips to Europe from Washington’s Dulles International Airport starting Oct. 1, spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said today in an interview.
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My Comment:
This nickel and dime from airlines is getting too far. Now people have to pay for meals on international route. It is better to add the price to the ticket rather than make it an extra pay. By making it an inflight pay, United is making it seems like eating on a long flight is an option. They are already doing this on chicago-honolulu flight but they could get away with it because it is considered local flight. All the airlines already have fuel surcharge as an extra on the ticket, now food. I think they are testing the endurance limit of passangers and I also think they should be careful because these things may come back and hunt them.
