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Can someone explain 5am airport drinking?

409 replies

Prenoden · 04/09/2025 06:52

I'm not asking this as a kill joy or teetotaler, I enjoy a drink on holiday as much as anyone but how are people able to stomach pints at 5am?

Been on holiday recently and could barely eat before flight yet everyone else had pints/ g&t etc. It wasn't even mid morning it was 5am

OP posts:
BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 04/09/2025 07:01

I’ve never understood how people can stomach pints at 5am either. I’ll have a Bloody Mary please.

InOverMyHead84 · 04/09/2025 06:59

Holiday mode, sometimes people will have been up for many hours just to get to the airport and through check on. The holiday now begins.

countrygirl99 · 04/09/2025 06:59

DrJump · 04/09/2025 06:57

Are they coming from a different time zone?

Unlikely at Luton

jettisoned · 04/09/2025 06:58

Doesn't it come from 'the olden days' when licensing laws meant you couldn't have a pint in the pub in the morning or after 11pm?

It was a novelty to have a drink outside those times- now you can have a pint at 8am in 'spoons....

It also marks the start of the holiday :)

DrJump · 04/09/2025 06:57

Are they coming from a different time zone?

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 04/09/2025 06:57

I think it’s a mix, some people are just in holiday mode and may well have been up a long time to travel to the airport. Others don’t like flying and drink to take the edge off or some just hope it will help them sleep through their flight.

LlynTegid · 04/09/2025 06:57

sorrynotathome · 04/09/2025 06:56

You might be surprised how many of them are scared of flying and use alcohol to cope.

Exactly, even though they are at hundreds of times greater risk on the journey to the airport.

sorrynotathome · 04/09/2025 06:56

You might be surprised how many of them are scared of flying and use alcohol to cope.

Papadulo · 04/09/2025 06:55

I’m always impressed by the 5am pint drinkers fortitude! Anything harder than a tea or coffee before 12 noon would have me going for a lie down.