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The perks of paying T-Mobile for wireless service now include a free drink someplace where its network can’t reach: the inside of a Delta Air Lines jet at 35,000 feet.
The carrier's "Member Month" marks the 10th anniversary of its T-Mobile Tuesdays giveaways. Most of the freebies noted are only good through June, but the “free premium in-flight drink” offer on Delta is an ongoing reward. The worst you could do with that on Delta’s drinks menu is a $9 Miller Lite, with the highest-priced option being a $12 red, white, or sparkling Une Femme wine.
(This promotion may not land so well with T-Mobile subscribers who fly United Airlines more often; six weeks ago, T-Mobile yanked their free in-flight Wi-Fi benefits on that airline without notice.)
T-Mobile is also providing 12 months of a complimentary DoorDash Dash Pass subscription, a $96 value, unless you have one of the many Chase premium credit cards that also cover this tier of the delivery service.
The more evanescent rewards include an unspecified “members-only celebration” in New York with the singer T-Pain and weekly gas-pump discounts of “up to 50 cents off,” up from the usual 10 cents a gallon. Sometime this month, T-Mobile will host “a one-day open-to-all $1.99-per-gallon event at select Shell stations in Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago.” Don’t be surprised if that stunt turns into a reenactment of the 1970s oil crisis gas lines.
In addition, T-Mobile is touting weekly sweepstakes and the integration of travel discounts in the T-Life app, which has replaced the original T-Mobile Tuesdays app.
The carrier inaugurated T-Mobile Tuesdays a decade ago as a surprise-and-delight tactic. The giveaways have included free pizzas and other kinds of fast food, free photo prints and refrigerator magnets, shares of T-Mobile stock (a promotion that ultimately went bad when the original brokerage went bust and its successor started charging service fees on the accounts), and nine years and counting of comped subscriptions to Major League Baseball’s MLB.tv.
As a T-Mobile subscriber myself, I have availed myself of the MLB benefit every year, even though it’s only good for watching other cities’ teams when they don’t play my city’s team. But the most memorable freebie I've gotten was something lower-tech: the set of solar-viewing glasses I used to watch 2024’s total solar eclipse.