American Airlines suspends alcohol sales in coach through January

American Airlines said first-class customers still can drink alcohol.

American Airlines will not serve alcohol in coach until at least 2022, aligning with the expiration of the Transportation Security Administration's federal mask mandate for airports and planes. American and Southwest airlines suspended alcohol sales early in the pandemic and said they wouldn't restart serving booze until September, when the mask mandate originally expired. That date has now been extended to Jan. 18. Southwest told ABC News it hasn't decided whether it, too, will extend its alcohol suspension beyond September. United Airlines has stopped selling hard liquor but is serving beer, wine and hard seltzer.