Can someone explain 5am airport drinking?

Babe I wait all year for my 1 week summer holiday so you best believe I’m ordering a peach Bellini at 4:50 in the morning

I agree. I love an airport glass of bubbly to celebrate the beginning of the holiday. I have a girls sun trip aboard every year and it’s usually an early flight and we love sharing a bottle of fizz while waiting for the flight. Same for family sun holidays. Then I’m able to have a snooze on the flight and wake up other end feeling refreshed!
Flying for work, short domestic flights and for the ski holiday I wouldn’t have a drink though.

How odd. Because you didn’t reference anything I said in your post.

I wasn’t rude at all. At least no ruder than the op pretending she can’t understand other people are different from her.

I know you won't see many drinking in those lounges at o dark thirty but I know for certain some drink (usually just the one) is on occasions taken there by those who have come into LHR on a longhaul arrival, are not travelling on business and are maybe waiting to connect with a BA shorthaul flight to get home somewhere in the UK or Europe

Luton definitely seems to be an outlier, though.

Only had to fly from there twice, each time early departures and each time hoards of people in the Spoons with pints of lager.

Never seen it to such an extent at Heathrow or Gatwick.

People who worked 12 hour night shifts would have been awake already

We used to go straight from work to the airport

I think some people feel it’s part of the holiday experience to have a pint in the airport. My children always have a Burger King in the airport at any time if it’s open as that’s part of their holiday for some reason.
Personally I’d be ill by 6am if I had either

Yeah I think @Pharazon has their blinkers on to try and prove a point. Not sure why though?! I have travelled extensively for work and there are always people drinking. Even those who are heading to another country for business will have the odd pint / glass of wine.

I fly lots for work and use the BA lounge at LHR and I'm definitely drinking, other people too. Weekday morning flights included.

If people are taking a short haul flight and heading straight into a meeting the other end maybe they're not, but you can't seriously be suggesting nobody in there is drinking.

What - no return of op?

It's really not - I fly at least twice a month (was more frequent before COVID) and have never seen people drinking early morning weekdays (I usually fly on a Monday) in either lounge at T5. Big queues for the coffee machines, no-one at the free bar. I will make sure to check on Monday morning (FRA again...). Maybe it's different in the Concorde Room, but I'm never in first so wouldn't know.

Imagine the pain of waking up at 3/4am to be in airport by 5am :)

I used to work 12 hour shifts, days or nights
Finish shift
Short journey to airport
Some people started their holiday at the airport
Long haul flight
No driving upon landing

I do not drink alcohol on long flights, however I know some people that do

Some people drink to help them sleep after working nights

Holiday starts at the airport. Passes the time I think.

I personally can't drink that time of the morning though unless I'm still up.

Exactly my point.

I would be willing to bet that very, very few of the people on a weekday 06.25 to Frankfurt are going there on holiday.

Cause pints are ace and it is my civic duty.

That looks a lot like a personal attack. You can’t go round calling posters alcoholic.

Well exactly. Most people who have a drink in the airport don’t become a massive issue on the plane. I agree that anyone showing up obviously drunk should be denied boarding and that stewards should take a view on serving alcohol to anyone who later shows signs of being drunk - because if safety aspects apart from anything else.
I assume people who react badly to alcohol don't drink at all, so they won’t be the ones having a drink, quite self evidently. That would be silly. So are you suggesting the people talking about headaches and hangovers from an airport drink think everyone reacts like that? Or that people just decide to have a headache and drink when they normally wouldn’t?

You cannot be serious 😆We fly regularly and use the lounge every time and there are ALWAYS people drinking no matter what time of day it is! Yes of course there are people who aren't but to say you've never seen anyone having an alcoholic drink at the airport in the morning is complete and utter tosh 😂

Everyone is different and likes different things to you. Thats the explanation.

Why would anyone have a headache from a drink or two?

I know a few people who have given up drinking because a drink or two does give them a headache.

I don't care if people want a drink or two before a flight, but I wouldn't want to be on a flight with very pissed and disruptive passengers.

We tend to fly to relatively boring places and have managed to not have this problem on any flights so far.

I've literally never seen anyone availing themselves of the free booze in the BA lounge at LHR while waiting for an early morning flight. Not once, in decades of taking early morning flights. At lunchtime/afternoon/evening sure. But I've never seen morning drinkers in there.

The "rough" really made me laugh that poster clearly meant common 🤣