Can someone explain 5am airport drinking?

How is it sad?
A nice cup of tea or coffee would be better for what?
Where are you getting nice tea or coffee in an airport anyway? It’s usually grim, while the alcohol is the same as everywhere else.

It's sad. A nice cup of tea or coffee would be better.

Agreed.

I'm not knocking people being safety aware, actually listening to safety briefs but I think some posters think in the event of an emergency they'll be required to be superwoman or superman.

Reality is, with the minor exception of self help exits they will be told and directed as to what to do, possibly very loudly, by the professionals on board.

I suspect most people who alcohol wise are fit to drive could manage that.

You don’t think it would be impossible to wake someone from a sleep aided by two drinks doesn’t you? She’s asleep, not unconscious and insensible. I imagine the emergency itself would wake her. If not I’m sure a nudge would.

People impaired shouldn’t fly. Having one or two drinks doesn’t make you impaired enough to be an issue in an emergency.

You're being dramatic 🙄

My stomach seems to take time to wake up, don't know why
So does mine.
I can't face eggs, a fry up or many other things before noon.
I have to keep it simple and light.

It's an offence most places to be actually drunk on board an aircraft but I wouldn't be too concerned about someone who has drunk a couple of pints or a couple of G&Ts when it comes to evacuations, donning oxygen masks etc.

The bigger problem is those who have knocked themselves out with medication (hence the increasing reluctance by GPs to medicate for fear of flying) and those who would insist on taking their handbaggage in the event of an evacuation.

Pissheads.

Because you’ll be impaired if there’s an emergency, you’ll be inconveniencing your fellow passengers unless you’re in a window seat?

Drinking should not be allowed in an airport full stop. What if there’s an emergency and you’re impaired? It’s selfish behaviour.

Maybe because a 'Spoons pint is cheaper than a Costa coffee!

I rarely drink, but always join DH having one before a flight, it's a tradition I suppose. And it feels weird sitting in a pub (generally the only place with seats left) and having a cuppa. We'll have one or two before boarding, but we don't drink on the flight. We don't have a 'Spoons breakfast any more though - it's bloody £12.99 now 😲

Coming home we tend to do the same, often because the smoking area is part of the pub. Only if we have transport booked back in England though, not if we have to drive home.

I'm terrified of flying and I had ONE wine on the plane a couple of years ago, thinking it would calm my nerves, and it did NOT.

I drink coffee and hide my mania the whole flight.

Can't wait to go away in 2 weeks.

I mope around the house saying goodbye to my houseplants, the postie, different objects in my home, the dogs........I hate flying and I'm terrified.

Can't see that any amount of alcohol would help.

I was in the airport at 4am last week and there was a bloke with a wine. Start as you mean to continue I guess…

If you had been in Dubai airport a few days ago you would have seen me with an Aperol Spritz at 5.30am. Bloody nice it was too. When I was Emirates gold I’d have been on the champagne in the lounge after my shower.

By that time though I had done a full day of work, then gone to the airport and caught a 17 hour flight leaving at 9 pm so by the time I arrived in DXB it was my 2pm the next day. It was a rammed flight in a middle seat without a wink of sleep. A G&T every 3/4 hours is a nice little thing to look forward to when you are trapped in hell.

I had a 5 hour transit in DXB then had to catch another 8 hr flight. It was just what I fancied and helped me stay awake and passed the time.

There were a LOT of people in that airport drinking. DXB is a major hub so there would have been people there from all over the world.

Rowdy drunks shouldn’t be allowed on the flight. People having a drink before boarding aren't usually rowdy drunks.

Agree. It’s not alcohol, it’s behaviour and attitude. You’d never ever even be aware of it if I had two glasses of wine before my flight. It impacts nobody else.

How is me having 2 glasses of wine and sleeping for 4 hours impacting you? Please tell me, because I can assure you, not once has me having a glass of wine had any impact on anyone.

What you describe is very very different and no that should not be allowed.

Difference being those things don’t impact upon others. Have you ever been on a flight full of rowdy drunks? It’s terrifying.

No, can't explain it myself, but to each their own!

As is eating cake and fry ups and fast food and smoking and drinking fizzy sweet drinks

Well if we're going down that route, drinking alcohol at anytime/anywhere is needless, still doesn't stop most people from doing it though. Do you finger wag at anybody having a tipple?

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Most flights to the UK aren't usually early in the morning. They'll turnaround the plane so our early morning flight is the lunchtime return flight

For info the UK LoCos will schedule like that to avoid nightstopping in europe (cost) , so no doubt many UK regional airports won't have early arrivals from europe.

OTOH the foreign carriers are working the other way round so lots of their flights leave europe early AM to get into places like London to turn to head back to London mid-late AM.

Also some Uk airlines such as BA do nightstop in europe precisely so they can o operate early AM into London from Europe, for example to feed BA Longhaul services that tend to start leaving late AM

It defo happens elsewhere, certainly at some major airports...connecting passengers, time zones etc.

There are at least some early morning flights to the UK airports from places in europe, for example for a while we had one from our local airport that departed for London before 0700 local,.we still have one that leaves for London before 0900 most days...

I've seen locals heading for that particular early flight on the wine/beer in limited amounts at breakfast time prior to boarding to go and watch a Rugby international at Twickenham....and before anyone asks they were good as gold on the flight.

Most flights to the UK aren't usually early in the morning. They'll turnaround the plane so our early morning flight is the lunchtime return flight or they tend to be night flights or midday/early afternoon so the pax would have got to the airport at say 9/10/11am or afternoon onwards, and not 5am so any drinking wouldn't seem that bad. Also, I can't remember seeing any pubs at any of the airports I've been too but maybe I wasn't looking for them.