Southwest Air Limits Onboard Drinks to Water on Longer Flights

  • Other carriers are restricting offerings of food and drinks
  • Changes help address concerns about spreading the coronavirus

Baggage is loaded onto a Southwest Airlines flight in 2017.

Photographer: Laura Buckman/Bloomberg
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Southwest Airlines Co. is extending new limits on food and beverage service during flights to help reduce person-to-person contact that could spread the new coronavirus.

The carrier will restrict beverages to canned water on routes longer than 250 miles, effective Wednesday, Dallas-based Southwest said in an email Tuesday.