Posted on 02/11/2017 10:36:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s not uncommon to feel the urge for an airport drink that can help manage your flying anxieties (or boredom). That’s why there are so many airport bars in the country’s busiest airports. But be aware: If you try to bring your own form of liquid relief onto a plane in the form of a nip (or mini) bottle of liquor, you’re going to have a bad time.
That’s what Lucy Yallop found on her flight from Newcastle, England, to Alicante, Spain. She tried to spike her orange juice with a mini of Absolut Vodka she’d brought onto the flight, but was called out by the flight crew. She was greeted by two Spanish police officers and three security guards when she landed, and then had to find a different return flight home.
“I never thought a miniature bottle of vodka would cause so much trouble,” Yallop told Metro. But it did, and, not to sound too much like an alarmist, it can happen to you, too.
Yallop’s trouble started before she even boarded the flight. She bought a mini of vodka in the waiting room, but only got half of it down before she was ushered onto the plane. Yallop and her two friends ordered soft drinks and the steward told them that they couldn’t drink their own alcohol, which wasn’t a problem for Yallop’s friends because they were on antibiotics. But for Yallop, there was half a mini bottle of vodka waiting.
“I knew I shouldn’t, but I knew I had the single measure in my bag and tried to put it in my orange,” Yallop told Metro. “The steward came from nowhere and said, ‘what have you got in your hand?’ It was embarrassing. I didn’t have time to pour it into my orange and he took it from me, put it in my handbag and we all had to put our hand luggage in the overhead lockers”
It was, in Yallop’s words, “a naughty schoolgirl thing” to do. It’s not just on international flights from England to Spain that this can happen, either. Airlines around the world have had it with these mini bottles of alcohol on these not so mini planes. The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations in the United States is explicit when it states that “no person may drink any alcoholic beverage aboard an aircraft unless the certificate holder operating the aircraft has served that beverage to him.” Or her, because women like their on-flight drinks just as much as men do.
“I know I was in the wrong but easyJet’s reaction was so over the top,” Yallop told Metro. “I didn’t even drink it. However, my advice to anyone is do not attempt to drink your own alcohol on a plane, no matter how little.”
Sage advice indeed.
Great new word to know.
The just want your to buy the same booze from them on the plane at a big markup
Preachy much?
Sounds like she just make an innocent mistake. I did not know until this article that you couldn't drink your own alcohol on a plane. Especially as every airline I've ever been on is happy to serve it to you at $5 or $6 a pop. Only reason I haven't tried bringing my own on board is because it is so readily available in flight.
I would not categorize somebody as an alcoholic, or having a problem, simply because they "need a drink" on a plane. That is one of the times when I will take a drink during the day. Flying with a bunch of strangers at 30,000 feet is a little stressful and a nip or two keeps me calm and helps me ignore the crying baby three rows back and focus on the book I have in front of me.
“I would not categorize somebody as an alcoholic”.... I did not say that at all
“Flying with a bunch of strangers at 30,000 feet is a little stressful and a nip or two keeps me calm and helps me ignore the crying baby three rows back and focus on the book I have in front of me.”....Then unlike this lady you ought to buy it on the air plane. I find that a nice cup of tea works better and doesn’t dehydrate the way alcohol at altitude does
You definitely insinuated she was some kind of lush with your statement.
Nope what I said was there is something wrong...could be a psychological issue. I don’t know
Seems you are quick to jump to conclusions
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