To just not approve of alcohol served on flights?

[TheHouseOnBellSt]

I just don't see why it's necessary to serve alcohol on flights. Why? People who smoke can't do that....and fair enough...alcohol makes many people act like twats.

Reclining even!

I love a glass of wine or three on a flight. Especially long haul. I also love to travel business class so no issue with reclining. I am a pampered princess and i don't care what anyone thinks!

MorrisZapp - limiting alcohol on flights, OK. I think most people would agree with you.

But the OP said 'banning' alcohol.

She seems to have gone (looking for something else to 'not approve of' I suppose.

And reclining seats - I haven't actually seen those on short-haul or even medium haul for a while now.

OP - maybe you have been unlucky but I have never experienced anyone being drunk and twat-like on a plane!

Having said that I don't normally bother with alcohol on a short haul flight because we will usually be picking up a hire car at the other end. But on long haul I would have one with a meal to pass the time and relax. Shock, horror even when flying alone with a baby to Sydney I imbibed on the final leg of the journey. But then a glass or two does not tend to render me incapable.

I like the serving of anythingalcohol because - like the pilot's announcements - it implies a degree of confidence that the plane will stay up long enough to make it worth the flight attendants' time in getting it out.

And I like the alcohol itself because if I'm going down, I'd rather do so slightly sozzled.

I'm not a good flyer.

I need a stiff drink to cope with the screaming brats kicking my seat whilst Mummy and Daddy do bugger all about it.

Having someone kick your seat is utterly irritating. Disproprtionately so in my opinion. I gives me the RAGE!

Haha to the comment about flying with kids. Going to Vancouver next week and got back from Denmark two weeks ago. Over the weekend we flew up to Maine. My kids are 2 and 4. They often scream most of the way unless in business class when DD aged 4 only screams with air pressure changes. Be thankful they are not your Dc. It's far worse for me.

Alcohol is fine of planes. I'm terrible for buying a bottle of wine at Manchester airport at duty free and drinking it on the plane with DH of we fly United (they have horrible wine). They have quite a few screw tops so no cork screw needed!

YAB SO U! My in-flight gin and tonic or three is absolutely mandatory.

Surely the thing to do would be to ban twats from flying? That way the drinkers who love a nice glass of wine can get on with it without upsetting you?

YABU, but now I want one of those knee defenders!

I commuted once a week from M/Cr or Liverpool to the IOM for over 2 years (job). I always called that the 'shortest gin and tonic in the world'. No sooner had I been served it than I was being asked to 'finish your drinks please'. (LoL)

I couldn't drink on the way to the airport - I was driving.

I couldn't drink whilst there (working)

So because other people are prats, all alcoholic drinks on a plane should be banned?

SanpeCapes that sounds like my ideal party! Non twattish drinkers all chatting amiably mid-air

I have never had an alcoholic drink on a flight before. But I think I just might when we fly next week. I've had one hell of a shit few months and I'm looking forward to getting away. I never drink but I think I will celebrate life getting a bit better.

I don't like crowds of drunk people that you get on some flights. Going on an 18-30 holiday I expected it. I highly doubt there will be crowds of drunks on the flight next week though.

I'm more bothered by drinking on trains, tbh. Can't even count the number of times drunk guys have disrupted/intimidated on one. But as someone who's flown longhaul all my life (not a humblebrag, just parents from opposite sides of the planet) I've not once seen any issues.

Thinking about it though, I've rarely flown charters on package trips, and perhaps that's why - scheduled, and people are flying on business or to see family, usually, not to get pissed up.

Fuck it, let's just go the whole hog and ban flying.

I was very glad of the gin and tonic I bought on my last flight. It took the edge off having to put up with the swearing, loud singing and general twatty behaviour of the Welsh rugby club group who were steaming drunk when they got on the plane. Why Easyjet let them on I don't know. They even served them alcohol during the flight and did nothing to shut them up for the duration.

I think, op, that you need to start flying first class, maybe one of the Asian ones with a suite, then you wouldn't have to be sitting near anyone, drunk or otherwise. Of course the problem could be even worse as they will have had three hours of free booze in the lounge, followed by champagne before take off, so by the time the dessert wine arrives you will be paralytic. Maybe the best plan is to save up for a private jet?

I'm long haul cabin crew for an airline that serves free alcohol. In my 20 years flying I can really only recall a handful of incidents.

Through training and experience we're quite good at nipping any potentially nasty alcohol related situations in the bud.
We are aware of how much each passenger has had and if we think they are getting drunk we have discreet ways of getting them to slow down.

Each situation is judged individually and it's our call whether we decide to point blank refuse to serve them anymore, although this actually can cause more problems and cause the passenger to become defensive or abusive.

I actually hate refusing anyone drink...its not coming out of my pocket and I want everyone's holiday to get of to a nice start.
I do find most people do know their limits and really just want to enjoy a glass of wine with their meal.

Funny...I've just realised that of the few incidents I have had they were either people drinking their own alcohol (purchased beforehand in the duty free ) or people who have taken medication, say sleeping tablets, and then had a drink.

Maybe I've been lucky, maybe it's because I work for a large scheduled airline where we don't tend to have large groups of stags etc but in my experience the vast majority of people drink very responsibly on board and behave very well.

I therefore would see no reason for a ban.

I generally fly long haul about 10 times a year. Always free alcohol and have never experienced problems.

On our last flight, DH and I had a couple of bottles of champagne bought for us with chocolates which we happily drank while watching films together. The lovely elderly Jamaican lady sat next to DH shared a couple of glasses with us, and remarkably none of us were anti social.

NRTFT but YABU. Not everyone wants to get homered. DH extremely nervous flyer and alcohol relaxes him otherwise he's a pain in the arse anxious the whole flight

Homered? Hammered!