AIRLINES: Goodbye to Prohibition

Because the airlines need every possible cent of profit during their current cash squeeze, and because the two-drink limit on domestic flights was hard to enforce, that prohibition has been quietly dropped. Now an air traveler can order as many drinks as he wants, within reason. On each $1.50 drink of roughly li oz., the lines make about $1 in profit.

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