Pirates Freeze Season-Ticket Prices, Add Value-Priced Plans
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Pirates Create Four Value-Priced Ticket Plans
With An Average Savings Of 25% From '08 |
The Pirates will freeze all season-ticket prices and "offer four new 'value-priced' full-season plans" for the '09 season, according to Paul Meyer of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE. The Pirates also will offer an "extended payment plan -- at no interest -- for all renewing and new season-ticket holders." The team's streak of "not raising season-ticket prices for seven consecutive years is the longest current streak" in MLB. Pirates President Frank Coonelly said of the decision, "We recognize the economy that we're all facing is a very difficult time. I think anybody in any entertainment business has to be concerned that the economy is such that you could see some decrease in certain areas of your business, so it's certainly a concern for us. It's one that we're proactively trying to get out in front of." The value-priced packages include 13,927 seats at the 38,362-seat PNC Park, and "show an average savings of slightly more" than 25% from last season. The most inexpensive of the four value-priced plans is a $399 per ticket deal for Sections 301-308 and 325-333, the "areas in the upper deck that run along each foul line." Those tickets will cost less than $5 per game. The second least expensive is a $599 per ticket deal for Sections 133-138 in the left-field bleachers, which works out to $7.40 per game. The Pirates will not begin selling individual game tickets until February 21, and it "won't be known until then if the Pirates will raise those ticket prices." Coonelly said that season-ticket sales "won't impact the pricing of individual game tickets" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 11/4).
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