free booze on long-haul flights

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Is there anywhere on the Internet which lists which airlines give you free booze? And if not, why not? The last thing I want is some cockfarmer expecting me to pay good money for a can of lukewarm Heineken.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

The only rule I know is that if it's Transatlantic, they give you free booze.

In the US, domestic flights don't get free booze, but international ones do. Hurrah!

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

the last two transatlantic flights I was on, no free booze.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Long Haul is generally Free booze; occasionally, very occcasionally you have to pay for spirits. Short-Haul and domestic you get variations everywhere, from you will pay for the cabin air supply to full service.

From recollection

Full service everywhere:

BA, Virgin, Singapore, Quantas

Pay for Spirits:

Finnair

Pay for everything:

Iberia, BMI, Aer Lingus

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

(that was Aer Lingus)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Really? argh!

OK,if it's an airline my dad picked, there will be booze... ::pants::

Wait, no! I am not drinking. I am taking ambiens and sleeping the whole flight.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

All I know is Chicago to Zurich = free booze

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I hardly ever fly US carriers so I don't have any knowledge of them. Not getting complimentaray sloshed on long haul flights is very wrong.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Not all trans-Atlantic flights have free booze. On Continental, booze is $5 - though they did offer everyone one free drink on my last flight, but that was just because the flight was two hours late taking off.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

American Airlines is not giving of the free booze, which is a problem when they're BA's partner. They should have offered us a frebie for late takeoff, too.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah bloody Aer Lingus.

paid for everything last time, fucking awful films and music on the player thingy. ended up playing solitaire on ipod for about 5 hours.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

london to chicago on american or northwest means pay booze! at least the last couple of trips i've had over. i'm pretty sure that includes beer/wine with the meal, as well, which used to be included.

xpost-- i didn't even get offered a free drink when the CANCELLED my flight home and i had to sit in heathrow (go home for a nap, actually, but they don't know that) for 8 hours!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been on a long haul without free booze. I've been on a few short flights with free drink as well - the most recent one was London-Budapest with Lufthansa.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

The last time I travelled Continental, it was a Virgin partnered flight, so basically, free everything. Makes you wonder what they save for the first class passengers - free blow jobs?

Rubbish on the AA. But that's a good reason for me not to drink and visit the Dr for proper happy pills.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

virgin couldn't even get my vegetarian meal right.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Virgin is the only carrier I've ever been on that had a veg meal as standard, so I didn't have to ask up front!

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I did a few short haul Virgin Blue flights in Australia, and they made you pay through the nose for drinks n snacks. The flights themsleves were dirt cheap, though (Cairns-Sydney for $100AUS!).

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

the moral of this stories seems to be fly euroean airlines or at least ones that haven't been in chapter 11 in the last few years.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

repost with grammar

The moral of this story seems to be: fly euroean airlines or at least ones that haven't been in chapter 11 in the last few years.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Within Europe, some short-hop flights offer free booze. Last year I flew from Zurich to Prague on SwissAir and they had free booze.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

the answer could be on this site:
http://www.airlinemeals.net/

― natalie portmanteau (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten the excellence of 'cockfarmer'.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

we went to NYC on AA the other week and no free booze whatsoever, I was mortified, no Bloody Mary!!!

Achingly posh class on BA though more than makes up for being bumped for a day with their "glass of champagne before take-off sir?" attitude.

I always go for an emergency exit seat, being a big-lad, and I usually get one, not coming back from NYC though, so I was in the aisle, and went that trolley rammed right into the side of my knee and wedged it against the side of the seat in front, the air went more than a little blue. The attendents had a terrifying "please don't sue us nice man" faces on them, still no booze though :(

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

After flying crappy domestic U.S. airlines for so long, I was shocked that all I had to do on my transpacific Qantas flight was push a button and a well-groomed steward would go fetch me some white wine.

Also, if you say that you're a diabetic, you get your dinner and breakfast before everyone else. First to eat, first to sleep.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

1999, United, SF to London, no free booze.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

i never drink booze on planes

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i never fly planes on booze.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK MY Travel.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I always plan on taking full advantage of the free booze, but in the end I can never be bothered.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

1995, Air Canada, sitting in the row behind the meergency exit row which had been reserved for the stewards. However, during the flight, these seats are used for the large box of mini wine bottles. Result = my hand sneaking through between the seats every so often, and a rather tipsy Mark arriving in Vancouver 11 hours later :)

― Crimea River (Mark C), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

What is a 'meergency", Mark? I envisage a squadron of meerkats making enquiries insistently. Only things I ever drink on flights are water and orange juice; booze dehydrates.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

A plane's not exactly the most dangerous place to be dehydrated. Or are you envisioning crashing in the desert?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

bloody mary = best meal you'll ever get on a plane unless you're in GOCBT-O? class.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

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