Drink Coupons

[floridaguy]

I personally am opposed to these free drink coupons.  Nothing is "free" and it ends up in the price of a ticket.

I end up supplementing someone's free drink and I say if you want a drink buy one.

[dfwskier]

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@floridaguy wrote:

I personally am opposed to these free drink coupons.  Nothing is "free" and it ends up in the price of a ticket.

I end up supplementing someone's free drink and I say if you want a drink buy one.

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It's a little like bags fly free, carry ons fly free, and no charge to cancel or change your ticket  -- you don;t have to use those things either.

[floridaguy]

Actually not.  Most everyone uses the baggage service.  I don't want to cover the cost of drinks.

[dfwskier]

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@floridaguy wrote:

Actually not.  Most everyone uses the baggage service.  I don't want to cover the cost of drinks.

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Those that don't have "your" baggage service charges added to cost of their tickets.

What about IFE? The cost of that  is included in everyone's ticket, but not everyone uses it. Should Southwest charge those that use it a fee? By your drink coupon logic, that seems to be what you would want...

[floridaguy]

I believe that if you want it, you pay for it.  Nothing is free.

While not all services can be ala-carte, certainly an alcoholic beverage is something that people can buy.  

I have the right to disagree and would appreciate your acceptance of same.  

[TheMiddleSeat]

I agree with @dfwskier, where do you draw the line? There's no published statistic to back up the claim "most everyone uses the baggage service" so really, stating one free thing should go away while another should be retained is just someone trying to force their preference upon everyone else. Funny how those people complain when someone points out the arbitrary nature of their statement.

All this reminds us of the wonder that is the free market... If someone doesn't want to let others enjoy a free drink there are plenty of other airlines that are happy to take that small pleasure away from passengers. If "subsidizing" another's drink is that horrible, go fly another airline. 

--TheMiddleSeat

[dfwskier]

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@floridaguy wrote:

I believe that if you want it, you pay for it.  Nothing is free.

While not all services can be ala-carte,  

 Sure they can. Frontier, Spirit and Ryan Air prove that every single day. That's the "nothing is free" model you seem to advocate.

[PettyIntrigues]

Well, fguy will be happy as SWA informed me today they are no longer (well, “currently,” I was told) providing drink coupons through Rapid Rewards. The rest of us, maybe not so much. Four coupons for what amounts to every five roundtrips was a pretty nice perk that could maybe be reasonably slightly curbed to two or so. Zero coupons for your most-frequent flyers is just cheapskate behavior.

Edit: I see there has already been a thread about this. My bad; it didn’t come up in my search. Regardless, a bummer.

[DancingDavidE]

This is probably another thread to close @cheyenneallgood and have people start new discussion since the early thread is when drink coupons were issued, separate issue now that they are discontinued.