We have too many airlines, prices are too low, and there are too many daily flights to most destinations. The airline business will remain a losing proposition until all of these change.
Are you saying there is an airline refusing to sell you water?
I still don’t see it. You seem to br agreeing with me by repeating what I said, but in different words. Please, read all my posts.
My position is that airlines should provide potable water on demand for their passengers.
Why do you want me to drink restroom water, fer cryin’ out loud? 
Y’know, I had somehow completely missed the fact that you are the OP. Though it does make more sense now, you could work on your paragraphs just a bit.
The degeneration of civilization will be over the commodification of water.
Don’t know where you live but I’ve always been charged for water. It’s pretty good quality too, I might add.
It’s not about where I live. There’s no problem because we can afford it. It’s when it gets to the point where a dehydrated person cannot get the water he needs because he has no money that civilization has lost its humanity. My wife was nearly passing out at a bar, and they didn’t have anymore bottled water, they turned off the cold taps in the bathrooms, and the bartender wouldn’t give her a glass of water. I happened to know the barback from back in the day so he settled it. I haven’t been back to that club since.
If your business model requires people to be in a captive environment, you owe it to them to supply water. It’s as simple as that.
Uh huh. Every been on a Greyhound bus? No drinking fountains, no Drive Attendants selling water. Nothing. But I’ll ask again, what airline is refusing to sell water?
No one’s ever taken my water from me before boarding a greyhound bus either. If the airline is charging for water there is something wrong. Most airlines give it for free.
No Airline has ever given water away for free. You may have been use to it being added to the cost of your flight but you paid for it along with peanuts, headphones and whatever other crap they wanted to tack on to the price of a ticket. Now you’re NOT forced to pay for it if you don’t want it.
Greyhound also stops once every hour or two to let the passengers out. Comparing airlines to ground travel is apples to oranges.
So lets review: on a bus you’re completely screwed for 2 hours. On an airplane you can buy water or other items you wish to consume.
What is the problem exactly?
Airline travel is faster (on long trips) than greyhound. That’s it.
I actually thought about this two years ago when I went to Austin. Come to think of it, that was only a little over a year ago. I’d forgotten, Getting older sucks, sometimes.
Anyway, we even got drinks and snacks.
Greyhound seats are wider, aren’t they?
Anyway, there’s something unholy about letting someone thirst. Something wrong in your heart.
That review leaves out tha part about bringing your own water.
Oh, so they reduced the price of travel when they started charging for water. And here I thought it was like the paying for extra luggage thing where I pay the same rate for less service. Thanks for clearing it up that I’ll be saving .25-.50 on my airfare.
Your earlier post was a complaint about not getting water because of cost. The water was available. It’s not a financial issue to charge people on a flight given the cost of the ticket involved. Water isn’t free and never was. And while you can’t bring more than 3 oz of water you can bring 3 oz of water, 3 oz of tea, 3 oz of apple juice …etc. If you want to be cheap about it you can hydrate yourself from home using smaller containers.
If you want to wage opinon that you prefer to pay for the water along with your ticket then you have a lot of company. But as I pointed out earlier, the internet has introduced cost as the deciding factor for ticket pricing.
Cost isn’t a factor in the water thing. It doesn’t reduce the price of tickets. The ticket prices are the same and now they just charge you for water too. They are buying that water in bulk at probably less than a nickle for that six ounce bottle they usually give out on planes, and are probably marking it up a couple hundred percent.
This is the best argument for re-regulation but I was having this conversation with someone at work the other day and he pointed out that before deregulation no one could afford to fly, so I dunno what the hell to think anymore.
Well but does that necessarily mean that they are not giving away potable tap water in little cone cups? Same as restaurants, you get tap for free but if you want mineral water in a convenient bottle then you have to pay. Genuine question.
ETA: is airline bathroom water in the US always potable? I’ve never noticed, I had assumed no.
Uh, what? Cost is not a factor? Ticket prices are the same?
Have you read the paper lately? I can think of 4 airlines that shut down this year (Skybus, Eos, ATA, and Aloha). There may be more but those come to mind. Beyond that the major airlines are laying people off. American is laying of 6,500. United is laying off 950. Northwest is laying of 2,500. What part of losing money do you not understanding? Do you expect the airlines to operate at a loss so you can have water without thinking about it?