Travel brands are trying to figure out the best way to deal with the social unrest that’s expected in the coming week, ahead of the inauguration of President-Elect Biden. For example, we’ve seen Airbnb cancel all reservations in the DC area over the inauguration.
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Ben - I think you have a new career in copywriting announcements - or writing an SNL skit. I nearly spit out my coffee laughing.
I wonder whether AA will be also suspending pitching CC on flights to & from DC area airports (BWI, DCA, and IAD) as a measure to decrease passengers' frustration.
I see this impacting very little since all of AA doesnt have any international flights going into DC airports and domestic ones only serve it in first class. And looks like this ban is only for serving/selling it but doesnt look to be a ban on one bringing their own liquor on board (Only if can be bought at the airport post-security before boarding)
I'm now to the point where I wish all carriers would ban alcohol on domestic flights. If pax want booze, they can chug it in the airport. Last February, sitting in AS PE, the twentysomething idiot next to me took advantage of the free alcohol offering and threw back five bottles of roadhouse whiskey within the first hour and a half of the flight. I had to intervene when he started in with the verbal sexual harassment of the young woman in the row across from ours. No assistance from the flight attendants. Nice.
Women endure this crap every day. They don't need to be subjected to it in an enclosed space where they have no means of escape.
Now combine this behavior with insurrectionist politics. No thank you. I'd rather walk.
@Paulz,
Maybe saves at most 50 bucks per flight assuming 12 first class seats in domestic first and they only serve cheap stuff in domestic.
How about the airport bars and airline lounges at DCA/BWI/IAD have a 2 or 3 drink maximum? That is where the problem often begins and when I mean "problem" I mean at all times. Unless the passenger(s) are acting out at the gate or smell/look seven sheets to the wind the gate agents are going to be able to catch all highly intoxicated passengers.
I paid for a First class seat on AA next week so I could have a couple drinks on the flight. Can I can cancel for a full refund since they aren't providing the advertised amenities?
Some of these procedures could be related to the upcoming inauguration or not, but the event is just fueling the airline to do something. Unsure why some of theses procedures were not in place before. Why is the agreement not with an airport hotel anyway, for example.