Wetherspoons introduces £7.40 charge for customers who drink pints of beer

Wetherspoons has hiked prices AGAIN as cost of pint hits £7.40 for set locations. Wetherspoon's prices have soared to as much as £7.40 in airport branches up and down the country, including the likes of Birmingham Airport, at the NEC in Solihull.

Airport rates have jumped by up to 30p a pint - or as much as four per cent. Travellers at Gatwick, Edinburgh, Heathrow and Stansted were found to be paying £7.10 for pints of beer at airports at the major transport hubs in February.

Wetherspoon's has now hiked pints to £7.40 for Leffe. Brewdog Punk IPA and Innis & Gunn Lager (Edinburgh only) are both now on sale at a hefty £7.05, too, according to reports in the Sun newspaper this week, amid the big summer getaway.

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Wetherspoon's regular, Kev McMahon, 46, from Waltham Abbey, Herts, said: "We scrimped and saved to afford a holiday so to be hit in the pocket with these soaring pint prices at the airport is a real kick in the teeth. Hopefully things will be cheaper when we get abroad because they're certainly not here."

Rebecca Lockwood, 44, from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, added: "You used to be guaranteed a bargain beer when you went to a 'Spoons - even at the airport - but it seems that's all a thing of the past now."

Martyn James, independent consumer champion, said: "For many people, a cheeky pint at the airport marks the very beginning of your hard earned holiday. Yet a nasty surprise awaits holidaymakers airside as pints hit London prices."

James went on and said: "Bars need to remember that just because we're a captive audience at the airport, we won't forget blatant overcharging." Wetherspoons continues to operate pubs and bars up and down the country with boozers throughout Birmingham including the city centre.