Don't have One Too Many or Admit being Drunk...

[V Singh]

With free booze available @ various Lounges, its easy to have one too many pre-boarding drinks. What has been your experience on this front?

 

[Kefci2000]

Regularly drop 6-8 drinks at the F lounge prior to flight
2 beers, 2 champer, 2 Reds and 2 G&T over 3 hours

Then it is Champers on arrival in J

 

[Batesy]

Jq27 Smokers

Howdy all, I have been in Thailand for the last two weeks (coughet and other areas in that region so no issues with airport closures). Trip report to come We had an interesting incident on the way there on JQ27 from SYD. Three drunk young bogans/westies/whatever your terminology were arrested...

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Passenger refused carriage

Bit of a story here. Last Friday I was scheduled to fly from Sydney to Albury with Qantas. The flight was orginally scheduled to depart at 18:55, but was delayed till 8:30pm, due to some storms. No problem for me, can't do anything about it so I sat back in the T2 QP with Mrs Batesy and chatted...

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These are my two experiences but a long time ago

 

[ozzguy]

Being a VA Red I don't get much chance to frequent the lounge but when I do I take advantage of it. Usually try every beer available (or work my way through the options). Don't ask about the food!!

 

[theblank]

during my mispent youth I was absolutely smashed when I boarded a Garuda flight ex-Bali around 4am, and have very little memory of the entire evening before. Though that wasnt from the Airport lounge but rather Peanuts and Koala Blue et all.

all I do remember is;
- went out with $200 to Peanuts, which was all the cash i had left.
- drinking in a small bar after Peanuts has clsoed with a girl i met a few days earlier. me saying I gotto go to catch a plane and its a long walk to the hotel. she says stay longer she has a bemo and me arguing there is no such thing as a lady bemo, and i got no money left to pay her.
- a vague cloudy recollection of parked in a bemo by the beach having little snog with said lady driver.
- lady bemo drops me back to the hotel right on time finding my ex-gf (became ex about 2 days earlier ) and my driver waiting in the hotel lobby with my bags all packed ready to go.
- On check in I panic because I have nothing left to pay the departure tax, but when I opened my passport, the exact amount of the tax fell out. ( a smart drunk prepares well)
- ex-gf asking me why i got a hickey on my neck, quick as a flash I said it was her though I had a fairly good idea where it really came from.
- causing all sorts of mischeif when AU customs searching my stuff.
- and on the flight I was apparently chatting and annoying everyone but i had no memory of that!

Looking back I was very lucky to make the plane, let alone get through check in and customs. My regret is the identity of my lady bemo is a complete mystery, and wondering where all my money went. Knowing me i probably tipped everyone excessively.

 

[Stealthflyer]

I had enough time to sample all four ‘coughtails of the month’ in the BKK SilverKris lounge recently. I definitely regretted it. I felt pretty terrible by the time I got to the overnight Singapore to Sydney leg. I have a real weakness for the gins in the MEL SQ lounge too (my usual first transit lounge). Even though I know the combination of alcohol and flying isn’t great, the lure of the lounge open bar coupled with mild flight anxiety is just too great.

 

[Kefci2000]

I had enough time to sample all four ‘coughtails of the month’ in the BKK SilverKris lounge recently. I definitely regretted it. I felt pretty terrible by the time I got to the overnight Singapore to Sydney leg. I have a real weakness for the gins in the MEL SQ lounge too (my usual first transit lounge). Even though I know the combination of alcohol and flying isn’t great, the lure of the lounge open bar coupled with mild flight anxiety is just too great.

That just jolted my memory of the SIN SQ lounge and their coughtails. I think we had 2 of each (of the 4) coughtails of the week

 

[Justinf]

Coming back from London to Melbourne via Perth, had three small vodka and sodas.
We refused a fourth and offered just soda water instead.
Hadn't been drinking on the inbound flight at all.

 

[samh004]

I think some AFF members were refused drinks in a lounge once when the serving staff thought they had had enough alcohol even though they weren't inebriated

I recall on that occasion when one of those who had been cut off came to sit near me I promptly moved so as not to be tarnished with the same brush.

Having lived a little in my early AFF days I've had plenty of fun F lounge experiences. Think I managed 8 glasses one visit, but these days even 2 can sometimes be too much for me with the medication I'm on (epilim for epilepsy). One particularly memorable day was when I tried every red on the menu, and finished with what was in the decanter. 10 years ago... boy I look different!

 

[ozzguy]

Being a VA Red I don't get much chance to frequent the lounge but when I do I take advantage of it. Usually try every beer available (or work my way through the options). Don't ask about the food!!

Oh and when the VA lounge in SYD has a pop-up Bundaberg Rum stall serving coughtails how can you say no?

 

[Justinf]

Back in the mid 90s me and two mates were off on the typical Aussie backpacking trip. Got a tw-year work Visa etc and the night before I went out clubbing. Left club at 5am, then got driven the airport. At 8am was in the airport bar with Dad and the dads of the other guys.
I was absolutely wasted.
Got on the plane (Garuda) and FA came over said if I didn't settle down, the captain would throw me off the flight.
I was just being funny/silly, not aggro.
I finally realised that I wasn't being funny at all and very silly.
I calmed down and eventually made it to London, via Denpasar, Jakarta, Oman and Zurich.
It was the flight/s from absolute hell.

 

[p--and--t]

Wasn't drunk & only had one before the flight, but two years ago flew on one of the new AA planes from LHR to DFW in J. The crew had been undergoing retraining for the new services being trialled. Not long after takeoff the FA asked what drink I would like and I ordered a bourbon. She popped back a couple minutes later with a glass of ice, 2 x minis plus a couple of mixers. Had a quiet chuckle to myself when she said "this should keep you busy while I attend to the rest and start preparing for meal service".

 

[Beano]

I was challenged in Sydney F lounge and only had 3 whiskies. Can usually manage 2 wiskies and 2 congnac but need to keep it down as driving at the other end. Been stopped by RBA several times coming from a flight but all OK. It makes you careful!

 

[sydunipete]

The abuse of alcohol is neither clever nor funny.

Having said that … many years ago, I believe during the air traffic controller or pilot strikes, I was in the Adelaide ANSETT lounge with my boss watching the cricket from early afternoon. Delays were progressively announced hour by hour until we reached the point where we knew we wouldn't make it in to Sydney before the curfew. Looking forward to a nice comfortable hotel our pace of drinking picked up until ... an announcement came that we had been given dispensation to land in Sydney long after curfew.

Onboard my boss grabbed a bottle of red wine from the trolley and tucked it beside him on the seat .. upside down. After landing in Sydney (I don't remember too much of the flight) my boss fell over on the escalator and couldn't get up so all the tired, delayed, pissed off businessmen were stepping backwards on the escalator to avoid a pileup.

Being my boss nothing was spoken of this until now.

Just recently I flew SYD-SIN in first class on SQ and decided to take the Dom vs Krug challenge. Neither bottle survived to Singapore.

 

[Beano]

AS I said, it all depends on what happens at the other end; driving or taxi???

 

[Ewing]

I think some AFF members were refused drinks in a lounge once when the serving staff thought they had had enough alcohol even though they weren't inebriated

Yes I remember that day.

I wasn't sitting with the main group (a couple of us were sitting over on the lounges at the time so not to overcrowd the dining room), and the staff apologised to us for that rowdy group while plying us with ample libations

 

[PineappleSkip]

I have no recollection of being drunk on a plane.

cheers skip

 

[blackcat20]

Regularly drop 6-8 drinks at the F lounge prior to flight
2 beers, 2 champer, 2 Reds and 2 G&T over 3 hours

Then it is Champers on arrival in J

You delivered me onto QF9 rather Bollingered that one time the poor couple next to me had to put up with my chatter for hours.

 

[AIRwin]

10 years ago... boy I look different!

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The lounge still looks the same...

 

[samh004]

The lounge still looks the same...

I don't often see the big round table anymore, replaced with more 2-person tables. And I think back then there was only 2 dining spaces, now there are more, but it is in need of an extension I feel. Not sure it needs much of a refurbishment though as it's still a very nice space.

 

[Kefci2000]

You delivered me onto QF9 rather Bollingered that one time the poor couple next to me had to put up with my chatter for hours.

I remember that day I broke my normal drinking pattern and just had the 8 champers