Southwest Bringing Booze Back After Two Years
Southwest Airlines will resume the sale of alcoholic beverages on-board on February 16 after a nearly two-year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
After pausing our full menu of on-board beverage options in March 2020, Southwest Airlines will return to offering an expanded selection of beverages. That will leave American Airlines as the only major U.S. carrier still not serving alcohol in economy class.
“Customers have expressed a desire for more beverage options, so we’re delighted to restore additional on-board offerings as a part of the Southwest Hospitality that our Customers know and love,” said Tony Roach, Vice President Customer Experience and Customer Relations.
On flights of 176 miles or more, Southwest will add tonic water, apple juice, Coke Zero, Dr. Pepper, hot tea, and hot cocoa. These beverage options join the current offerings of Coke, Diet Coke, 7 Up, water, ginger ale, seltzer water, orange juice, cranberry cocktail juice, and coffee.
And more importantly, on the same date, the airline will restore alcohol beverages for on-board purchase. The options will include: Miller Lite ($6), Blue Moon ($7), Lagunitas IPA ($7), sparkling wine ($6), chardonnay ($6), cabernet sauvignon ($6), vodka ($7), lime vodka ($7), Jack Daniels ($7), Wild Turkey ($7), Bacardi Rum ($7), and Tequila ($7).
Southwest periodically sends free drink coupons to frequent flyers and also includes a free drink with the purchase of its priciest ticket, called Business Select. Many people have this coupons on hand. And if they expired in 2020, or 2021, there’s no need to worry. You will be able to redeem any Southwest Drink Coupon that was set to expire in 2020 or 2021 for an alcohol beverage through Dec. 31, 2022.
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Glad to see that they are extending the coupons that expired in 2020 or 2021 to the end of the year. I have a whole drawer full of them!