Extended: American Airlines Economy Alcohol Ban

As of march 8, 2022 AA is still banning alcohol sales in main cabin, but yet, serve to first class. This is discrimination to say the least. What needs to happen is a law suit for this continued, allowed discriminatory behavior

Hi, Any updates on this topic ? JAN 18th 2022 has passed and no word to be found, particularly for Main Cabin Extra. Thanks.

While I agree first class and business class customers typically make more money and have furthered their education while others equally educated and financially comfortable who do not travel "up front" may be doing so because it is either unavailable or so abhorrently over priced it is beyond their sensibilities. I for one have a Masters Degree in Finance and retired from EXXON MOBIL after 37 years. I am flying to Mexico and have upgraded my seat to the highest level of amenity which is in the only cabin (Main) of the Aircraft. I will not be served although I have paid for Complimentary Bar Service and AA will not discount the upgrade. I then asked to downgrade which they would gladly do for a fee. Really!@!?

The US DOT just released its latest Air Travel Consumer Report which covers operations for the month of June 2021 and, as I have consistently said it would be, it reflects how absolutely aweful air travel is in the United States this summer with most airlines. As usual, Hawaiian is at the top of the list in terms of on-time and fewest cancellations but Delta has performance that is just as good despite being much, much larger and having hubs and operations across the continental US, the same cities that other airlines operate from. Delta’s system on-time performance was more than 10 percent higher than American and United and a mind-blowing 20 plus percent better than Southwest and JetBlue both of which had less than 2/3 of their flights on-time. Even Alaska’s on-time is 6 points worse than Delta. In cancellations, Delta cancelled just 0.1% of its flights while American and Southwest each had over 3000 cancellations for more than 3% of their system cancelled. And the statistics for other metrics including baggage and wheelchair/scooter handling, customer complaints, oversales and even civil rights complaints are far worse than they were pre-covid and what even those airlines were doing in the spring. And this is only the report for June. Weather is not the issue here. Some airlines including esp. American and Southwest have pushed their systems to their limits throughout the pandemic and they are doing it with predictably poor results this summer And to add insult to injury, American and Southwest are the two large airlines that are not serving alcohol in economy. Their passengers are acting out because of the horrible operations and their managements are blaming customers and cutting them off from alcohol rather than admitting that their covid management plans have been wrong throughout the pandemic. The level of customer disservice in the US airline industry is not sustainable and airlines that cannot and are not delivering reliability have an opportunity to cut schedules to what is manageable and appropriately deliverable.

This is discrimination against lower income people. It infuriates me that they will still be serving alcohol in first class, but not economy. Are they saying that economy passengers are unruly and violent while first class passengers are not!? This is insulting and I hope some one files a lawsuit.