Can someone explain 5am airport drinking?

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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

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.

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 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

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

We used to go straight from work to the airport

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.

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

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 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.

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

It’s funny though that the other poster’s comment is still standing even though they were yelling at people to fuck off though, many times throughout the thread. Angry ragey behaviour 😬😂

It’s not really ragey. But yes, it could also be seen as a personal attack. I didn’t report either as it goes.

The using alcohol to cope thing is . . . I dunno, I believe it but wonder how well it works? I can’t drink on a plane because it gives me claustrophobia!

Would have no interest in it either but maybe people are on a stop off and have been up all night and confused by time, some are definitely alcoholic though

Imagine landing at 10 am and being round the pool at 11 with another bloody cocktail

Are you not judging? You've really never seen anyone on holiday drinking beers throughout the day? Its hardly new knowledge that some people drink on holiday

A headache seriously....

Could you clench any harder?
You sound as much fun as dysentery.
Come down from your ivory tower once in a while.

Really? There's loads of people drinking the free booze in the BA lounge when I've flown early morning

If your flying for actual work you obviouslt wouldn't, as your working. But there's definitely many helping themselves

Yes, believe it or not, some people do get headaches after a couple of drinks. Not everyone is the same.

So they aren't going to be having a celebratory holiday drink? They are likely working

That doesn't mean those same people don't have a mimosa when they are going on holiday, even if their flights at 6am

Yup, this is me. Take a few glasses of wine to get on the plane.

Dehydration 😂 usually gives me a headache and like I said in post this is me I wasn’t generalising! As I said everyone is different ❤️

Yep I can get a headache after 2 wines 😎

Yes I get a headache after 1. The only way to combat it is to have another drink and then another.

I don't care what anyone else does or doesn't do pre flight. All I'm interested in is having a peaceful flight where the 5am (or whatever time) imbibers stay quiet and don't go apeshit and try to open the plane door or have a fight or piss on the floor and cause mayhem - etc. After that I hope they enjoy their few drinks and their holiday.