or booze (which you have to pay for)
This is why I hate USA-based airlines (and European discount airlines, though I'm more OK with the European short-haul ones).
Here in Asia, they wouldn't dream of charging you for booze, at least not on an international flight. Cathay Pacific? JAL? Evergreen Group? They can't get me mile-high drunk fast enough! Then I fly to New York on AA and whiskey is suddenly $5.
I had a whinge about it to my folks after a particularly bad Tokyo-NY flight and they didn't believe me that the other international airlines still provide it as a complimentary beverage.
