Yanks offering flex plans for $275..a seat

The Yankees have started to offer flex plans for the remainder of the season in which you choose four games to attend, of the four games you are allowed to pick one Red Sox game and three other (non Red Sox)remaining games. The catch is that the seats are in the field level and run for $275 a seat.

Sure the view is great from these locations but for $275 a seat or $2200 for a pair to all four games is not worth it. Another way that this deal is a rip off is you must buy either two or four seats, and when I attempted to buy a pair on Ticketmaster almost all the pairs are in the last few rows.

It has been well know that the Yankees have had a hard time selling these seats and on any given game that is not played against the Red Sox, Mets or on the weekend, many of the seats are empty for the entire game. Unlike the legends seating area that has an all you can eat buffet, the field level seats between the bases offer nothing other than waiters service that you have to pay for. In this deal the Yankees are throwing in free passes to the Mohegan sun sports bar, which is just other way to spend money.

If the Yankees were to really create something to put some butt's in the seat they should have added some sort of free food in the deal and/or had a playoff pre-sale option. The Yankees could have given out some sort of coupons for a certain amount of free food, or given out Bomber Bucks (Yankee money that can only be spent at Yankee stadium on food,tickets and merchandise). Another way to possibly increase demand would be give the ticket purchasers the chance to be in a pre-sale for post season tickets just like partial season ticket holders. Before some partial plan holders get upset realize this, by purchasing this four game flex plan the customer is probably paying the same amount if not more than most partial plan holders. I can speak for myself and say that my 12 game bleacher plan was just $288 before fees, so just one seat for this flex plan is almost the same amount for my 12 games with two seats.

I'm sure that some people who have that type of money may think that it is a great deal. But I'm sure that the expensive field level seats are available through single ticket purchase even for big games like the Red Sox. So if you were to buy just for the Boston game think again. Either way the Yanks hope that the embarrassingly empty seats will get filled.