The plane probably had a low stock of alcohol. The drinks trolley usually goes really slowly down the aisle so all it might have taken was a dozen or so passengers ordering a couple of cans each and then they’re sold out.
Why can you even order alcohol on a commercial flight?
Edit: I don’t really know why I’m getting downvoted, it’s a genuine question. Smoking on planes was banned in the 90s, so why is drinking still allowed? It arguably affects people around you just as much.
99% of people who order alcohol on a flight don’t get belligerent. But every smoker disturbs people around them.
However it is unfortunately very difficult to tell who will get belligerent before serving them and there is not much in the way of discipline afterwards. Although to be fair the people who cause the most disturbance will probably be loud and annoying even if they don’t have anything to drink.
For what it’s worth, smoking was probably banned because of the fire risk and how easily it annoys people nearby. Alcohol is much more contained and mostly affects the person who directly consumes it.
Though I agree, considering how high the safety standards are in aviation, having people on board that are under the influence of drugs seems like something that should be banned.
Lol with this logic you could ban people from planes. I dont think alcohol is that bad. And if they serve so much alcohol people get drunk than thats another problem. Im not the best person to be talking about this because i dont drink and i dont care if people drink.
They still do in Poland at least. I heard a story from an airman about getting a ridiculous alotment of it for barely any flight hours. It was used as antifreeze for windshields. And then they “sprayed it a lot, because it’s like budgets, you don’t use it all, you lose it”. And when saying “sprayed it” he did a motion of chugging a bottle of vodka.
Me and the boys went to Japan once and were ordering gin tonics. They gradually became stronger and stronger until they told us that they run out of tonic water.
By then we were already drunk and very loud. Must have been quite bad being on that plane and wanting to catch up on some sleep.
Honestly the one good thing sunak can do with what has frankly been a disaster of a premiership is to punish these louts to the fullest extent of the law for embarrassing their entire nation by making what should be a 15 minute job take 30
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