With the rising costs of traveling I feel that it has become difficult for me, as a college student, to even fathom traveling by an airplane. As spring break approaches I forfeited the thought of even buying a plane ticket to Miami and opted to spend the 11 hours in a car over paying the outrageous air line fees. It seems that air lines are finding all sorts of things to charge their customers for, including baggage checking and non-alcoholic drinks. But when is enough, enough?
US Airways, one of the many companies feeling the pain during the financial crisis decided to charge passengers for all types of drinks on their flights. However, during a press conference last Monday, US airways CEO decided that effective on March 1sst they are going back to the old system of free drinks for their passengers.
I feel that this change may be a little to late in saving the face of US airways. The risk associated with making such a vast change probably scarred many long time US airways customers. Their attempt to save money could end up costing them more money in lost customers. I guess we will have to wait to see what happens next quarter to see how US airways cost cutting attempts will effect their future profits. http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/23/news/companies/airline_drinks/index.htm
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