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American Airlines will bring back drink service to premium passengers in May
First class, business and other premium class customers will get beverage service starting May 1, but main cabin passengers and alcohol service will wait a bit longer.
Pasengers on board an American Airlines Boeing 737. (Josh Noel/Chicago Tribune)
In a sign air travel is starting to return to normal, American Airlines will bring back drink service to premium class passengers on all flights starting May 1.
American, which ditched drink service more than a year ago at the behest of customers and flight attendants, has been giving travelers bottled water on flights under 2,200 miles for months, but it is starting to return scaled-back service to pre-pandemic levels.
American Airlines announces plans to reintroduce beverage, buy-on-board food service
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American Airlines announced plans to reintroduce beverage services to their flights with plans to bring back their buy-on-board food program later this summer.
Beginning May 1, all domestic premium cabins will reintroduce full complimentary beverage service, including alcohol, canned drinks, juice and water.
Starting June 1, beverage service, including canned drinks, juice and water, will begin in the main cabin.
Later in the summer, full main cabin beverage service, including alcoholic beverage options, along with Americanâs buy-on-board food program will be reintroduced. The safety and well-being of customers and flight crew on board is a top priority for American, the airline said in a press release. This has been the guiding strategy for bringing back more inflight services in a careful and thoughtful way to ensure flight attendants and
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An American Airlines passengers rolls his luggage to check-in in Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) (Tom Fox)
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