US Airways is a Two Dollar Whore

Okay, I know U.S. airlines are having a hard time of it lately. Gas prices, weak dollar, a public that's not traveling. But, still... CAN'T THEY FIND SOME WAY OF MAKING MONEY OTHER THAN CHARGING $2 FOR A CAN OF SODA?!?!?!?1?!?
I mean, really! I'm talking to you here, U.S. Airways. What a way to seriously fuck your customer. Since 9/11, we can't bring any water, soda, etc. past the security checkpoint. Most of us already pay $3.50 for $1 bottles of water before we get on the plane, since we never know when we're going to get stranded on the tarmac for hours or hit turbulence that delays the little cart rolling down the aisle. And since you've all resisted any legislative efforts to ensure a minimum level of air quality in the cabin, it's drier than the Tucson desert up in your nasty planes, and we MUST have liquid or else show up at our destinations looking like desiccated raisins.

Seriously. Find some other way to make up this money. Raise your ticket prices by $2. Raise the first class ones by $10. It won't hurt you. A few bucks doesn't change anyone's mind - when it's a few bucks, it's always other factors. When I fly from NYC to Chicago to visit my parents, I'm willing to pay $20 or $30 or $40 above the "cheap seat" to get on the Delta flights from the LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal to Midway, just because it's so much easier and I'm in that flyer program. But I will never, EVER fly an airline that charges me for water/soda/coffee. That just pisses me off.

If it pisses you off too, let U.S. Airways know about it:

Contact U.S. Airways

Then let the other airlines know, so they don't follow their lead:

Contact United Airlines

Contact American Airlines

Contact Delta Air Lines

Contact Northwest Airlines

Contact Continental Airlines

Write Southwest Airlines (no e-mail):
Southwest Airlines
P.O. Box 36647 - 1CR
Dallas, Texas 75235-1647