How A Tweet About $28 Airport Beer Helped End Airport Price Gouging

Last year some guy tweeted about finding a $28 beer at a NYC airport. That’s the sort of thing people regularly complain about on social media. His tweet, however, sparked a legislative inquiry by the NYC Port Authority that may end up creating an aftershock of legislation making this sort of “indefensible” price gouging at airports illegal.

For any business traveler, the rationale for such exorbitant pricing at airports is pretty obvious ... when you’re on an expense account where someone else pays, who cares how much beer costs? However the tweet still sparked a PR crisis for airport food service operator ATG, who claimed it was a mistake at the time. Either way, the lesson here is clear: angry tweets about injustices are easy to ignore ... unless they happen to be about someone daring to overcharge for beer in America.