25 thoughts on “Airline to Stop Alcohol Sales Before 8am.”
Unfair!
I used to work nights, and people gave me the side-eye when I ordered a beer with my breakfast, which was actually my dinner, because I'd be off to bed in an hour or so.
These guys probably only fly within GMT* and CET, so it may not matter. But still: to pack people in like sardines and deny them the consolations of liquor is a Holocaust-level infringement of basic human rights.
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*Used to love to listen to the BBC and hear them say simply, "The time is three." Because GMT is The Time from which all other time zones spring. The pleasures of empire….
Even if one were to fly from Falmouth to Aberdeen, it would be about a four hour flight. By which time the sun would be over the yardarm, and the cocktail light would be lit.
STORY TIME:
Long ago, when I was a championship drinker, I was on a 7am PSA flight from Ontario(Ca) to San Francisco. The 727 was nearly empty, but a guy in a suit,(30ish) asked if I minded if he sat in the aisle seat, with a center seat between us. "Sure", I said. He looked a bit distraught.
Before we took off, he called the flight attendant over and asked for 2 Jack Daniels on the rocks. "YOU want anything?", he asked me. "Uh, sure, thanks; I'll have the same." She brought the drinks and he he told her to "keep 'em coming".
It turned out that that he was a successful sales guy for some sort of Omnicorp and had been covering a several hundred mile region easily covered by car. He'd just been promoted to statewide and was "scared shitless of flying."
"I can't tell them THAT" he said, many drinks into the flight. One of the perks of his new job was a giant stack of PSA Preferred Passenger Free Drink Cards, 20 of which he gave me after we landed.
Poor guy. I wondered if his terror of flying or his unique method of dealing with it would get to him first.
About 25+ years ago when Southwest Airlines had free drinks I could knock down 3 bourbons & water in the one hour between Austin and Dallas' Love Field. Several times they handed me my last drink as we just started over the runway. They had free peanuts then too. Good times.
I was too young, but my first few flights offered drinks and 4-packs of cigarettes that you could smoke on the plane. Later on, we had to provide our own, but smoking was still allowed. The PSA Redeye between SFO and LAX was some kinda fun.
Unfair!
I used to work nights, and people gave me the side-eye when I ordered a beer with my breakfast, which was actually my dinner, because I'd be off to bed in an hour or so.
That's yer Sharia Law, right there, that is.
What's the use getting sober, when we're just gonna get drunk again?
Blue Blob is here.
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Send it towards Central Texas, please.
I'll see what I can do. Where are you again?
10 miles south of Thorndale on County Road 481. Just send it toward Beaukiss and we'll get it.
Dern. Can't do it. Yer stuck twixt and tween.
8am in what time zone? And what if you are flying west and crossing other time zones, what then?
It's BS Time
I'm not into time, man.
Futurist!
These guys probably only fly within GMT* and CET, so it may not matter. But still: to pack people in like sardines and deny them the consolations of liquor is a Holocaust-level infringement of basic human rights.
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*Used to love to listen to the BBC and hear them say simply, "The time is three." Because GMT is The Time from which all other time zones spring. The pleasures of empire….
It's "Coordinated Universal Time!" /shakefist
Not in the Imperial System of Weights and Measures. BTW, how many hands high is that horse?
My day starts at midnight, not noon!
Julian Days?
Also too, what time do they stop selling alcohol? 07:59?
Even if one were to fly from Falmouth to Aberdeen, it would be about a four hour flight. By which time the sun would be over the yardarm, and the cocktail light would be lit.
STORY TIME:
Long ago, when I was a championship drinker, I was on a 7am PSA flight from Ontario(Ca) to San Francisco. The 727 was nearly empty, but a guy in a suit,(30ish) asked if I minded if he sat in the aisle seat, with a center seat between us. "Sure", I said. He looked a bit distraught.
Before we took off, he called the flight attendant over and asked for 2 Jack Daniels on the rocks. "YOU want anything?", he asked me. "Uh, sure, thanks; I'll have the same." She brought the drinks and he he told her to "keep 'em coming".
It turned out that that he was a successful sales guy for some sort of Omnicorp and had been covering a several hundred mile region easily covered by car. He'd just been promoted to statewide and was "scared shitless of flying."
"I can't tell them THAT" he said, many drinks into the flight. One of the perks of his new job was a giant stack of PSA Preferred Passenger Free Drink Cards, 20 of which he gave me after we landed.
Poor guy. I wondered if his terror of flying or his unique method of dealing with it would get to him first.
cool story
About 25+ years ago when Southwest Airlines had free drinks I could knock down 3 bourbons & water in the one hour between Austin and Dallas' Love Field. Several times they handed me my last drink as we just started over the runway. They had free peanuts then too. Good times.
I was too young, but my first few flights offered drinks and 4-packs of cigarettes that you could smoke on the plane. Later on, we had to provide our own, but smoking was still allowed. The PSA Redeye between SFO and LAX was some kinda fun.
Holy crap, you are old. Further back from that, and you'd get miles on the Montgolfier Brothers Balloon Company?
And now, I don't care if I never see the inside of a plane again. Not that I don't like flying, I do. I just don't want to deal with TSA.