Posted on 06/16/2020 10:38:38 AM PDT by libstripper
Alcohol sales may have boomed during lockdown, but our return to air travel will be an altogether more sobering experience.
Airlines including Easyjet and KLM in Europe, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines in the United States, and Asia's Virgin Australia, are suspending all or part of their alcoholic drinks service in response to Covid-19.
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True woe and horrors to anybody who has to fly steerage. Next time I go to CA I'll go first class via Lincoln Navigator. CURSES ON THE AIRLINES.
Don’t have time to read the article but wth does one have to do with the other???
Gonna be a lot of people doing the half pint in the sock trick.
Perhaps — in response to COVID-19 — LL Bean will stop selling blue socks.
It would make as much sense.
they’re trying to minimize contact between crew and passengers.
didn’t read the article. but that’s my guess.
Alcohol kills germs.
For multiple reasons, I’d rather go to the dentist than have to fly somewhere. So glad I no longer have to subject myself that that.
With the ban on liquids going through security in more than 3 oz bottles, that’s going to be tricky. Gotta stop by the duty-free shop once you get past the TSA I guess.
Ditto that.
Why are they doing this? I have never heard of any connection between drinking alcohol and WuFlu.
Good thinking. One thing I learned in college. When it comes to alcohol there’s always a way.
Actually, that’s also a way to save weight, too. Not having to carry multiple bottles of alcoholic beverages can save up to a couple of hundred pounds per flight—a lot by airliner standards.
I guess this means that they will give you the whole Coke Can instead of a cup of it. They should probably give you a Straw as well, a Paper Straw.
Do those Airport Terminal Stores still sell those little bottles of Booze?
“ Gotta stop by the duty-free shop once you get past the TSA I guess.”
Never any bottles smaller than a 5th in the airports. Plastic pint bottle in the sock?
This refusal to fly has nothing to do with fears of some over-hyped bug. I had basically given up flying a few years ago. The entire experience is terrible. The only thing flying has going for it is the ability to get you across large distances (especially oceans) relatively quickly. That is, if the flight isn't cancelled or you don't miss it because your connecting flight was hosed up somehow.
I cannot remember the last time I flew "for pleasure" - probably 10+ years. I've been averaging about 1 or 2 business trips a year. However I can use the virus hype to my advantage - I can refuse to fly for business out of claimed "fear" of contamination.
I may be heading for Houston from California in November. Although it’s a 20-hour drive, I’m seriously thinking of going by car because all of the hassles involved make flying so unpleasant.
They’re going to save even more weight with the passengers deciding to take other modes of transportation because they can’t have a drink on the flight.
When I was a road warrior, I stopped drinking alcohol on international flights and coast to coast flights in the US. It plays hell with the jet lag and dehydration. I do admit that I cheated when I was upgraded from Business to First. Life is good up there.
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