Drinking the J Cabin Dry on SYD DRW

[mickeyc747]

Thought this would an interesting post, when I travel I like a beer SYD DRW is 4 hours 40.

The flight leaves at 9.40am and no I didnt start drinking as soon as we took off, but at 11.30am I had a beer(Crown Lager).

Lunch was served at midday and had another beer, great 3 courses. Finished and had another beer, 3 in total. 1 before luch and 2 during lunch. About 1 pm was served a fourth beer which I appreciated. As I was not driving and we had another 45 minutes to decent I though I would ask for a 5th beer remeber Crown Lagers on board are smaller than the lounge ones.

The following responce from the CS amazed me I am sorry Mr Mickeyc747 we have no more Crown Lagers only 4 are loaded and I dont drink Fat Yak of which there were only 4 as well. Fortunatley for me the only other guest in the J cabin was Shannon from the Biggest Loser and being a fitness guru didnt drink on board. My question is 8 beers are loaded on a J cabin for a 4 hour plus sector and for example the DRW SYD today has 7 pax on board, lucky I am flying to MEL and the only one in J. Could not get a pure blonde from the main cabin as the main cabin had been drunk dry by a football team travelling to DRW for end of season trip.

 

[Qld4101]

Have had a similar experience on the SYD/CNS sectors, with beer and wine, have been surprised a couple of times that they only had 1 bottle of the wine I was drinking as well, there are normally only a couple of people in the J cabin which may have explained only 1 bottle but if we had both been drinking the same wine not sure it would have been enough for a 3 hour flight! On the positive the second person is normally my wife who doesn't like the same wines so generally all ok..........

 

[pauly7]

Wow that's a lot of alcohol.... :/

 

[N860CR]

I'd say 4 beers on a long sector like that is pretty soft! Although maybe I'm just accustomed to drinking more than most. 4 beers in 4 hours wouldn't even put you over the driving limit so I'd say it's extremely conservative of DJ to be loading such limited numbers.

I will admit to draining QF J of mini sparking wine bottles, but that was a MEL-BNE and I counted 6 people hitting the sparkling so I think it was fair enough.

 

[carpenteria]

And to DRW of all Places!

My experience is slightly different as all my DRW legs have been from BNE, however I am certain I drank more than 4 Fat Yak's during the journey on each occasion (I take maximising the value of my points very seriously. "Would you like another drink?" Oh you betcha!).

If they were to only have 4 of each on a plane with up to 8 J passengers, that's just asking for trouble IMO.

 

[BVT]

I am reminded of a commercial from the 70's(?), where pax are seen parachuting from a jet becasue they ran out of Bacardi!

 

[pythonisman]

I think the real crime here is choosing Crown Lager over Fat Yak!

 

[lobo76]

I've booked a flight on J BNE-MEL for myself and 3 thirsty guys from a touring band. We better not run out of booze or I'll be in trouble!

 

[here2go]

I'm looking forward to Mickeyc747's review of Royal Brunei and IranAir soon.

 

[mickeyc747]

I think the real crime here is choosing Crown Lager over Fat Yak!

Lol I was waiting for that one

 

[pythonisman]

Lol I was waiting for that one

I had to
I do share your above sentiment though. A J flight should never be dry!

 

[mickeyc747]

About to board DJ 1464 from DRW to MEL lets see what we have to drink in J class tonight

 

[jazza1971]

mickeyc747 I'd hate to have that happen! I myself drank a large number of JBs on the same leg from the moment the cabin service started till descent and thankfully they didnt run out.....mind you the CSM made sure I also drank a bunch of water too like I dont know how to handle my booze...RSA and all that

Have a good flight down to Mel!

 

[mickeyc747]

CS advised 3 crownies and 3 fat yaks loaded on DJ 1464 DRW to MEL

 

[casanovawa]

Time for an email to John Borghetti???

 

[pauly7]

I'd say 4 beers on a long sector like that is pretty soft! Although maybe I'm just accustomed to drinking more than most..

Sounds like it

But I am a self confessed gym junkie so alcohol isn't high on my consumption list given how bad it is for you & what it does to you physiologically.

Perhaps DJ under budgeted...

 

[mickeyc747]

CS advised 3 crownies and 3 fat yaks loaded on DJ 1464 DRW to MEL

Back at gate aircraft problems cabin now dry prior to depature lol

 

[mannej]

I'd say 4 beers on a long sector like that is pretty soft! Although maybe I'm just accustomed to drinking more than most. 4 beers in 4 hours wouldn't even put you over the driving limit so I'd say it's extremely conservative of DJ to be loading such limited numbers.

I will admit to draining QF J of mini sparking wine bottles, but that was a MEL-BNE and I counted 6 people hitting the sparkling so I think it was fair enough.

Are you sure about the driving limit? Roughly adding it up it could indeed put you over the limit?

 

[turnip666]

Not quite the same level of crisis as no beer, but I did manage to drink all the tonic on a cx flight a few years back! Plenty of gin left, but I really had the wobbly boots on getting through HK customs and had to swap to scotch and cokes on approach.

The ramifications of all tha booze was horrible....I had to grow a beard as a result of that flight ( and the gin) . No evidence of RSA and none would have been welcome.......

 

[here2go]

Are you sure about the driving limit? Roughly adding it up it could indeed put you over the limit?

Now here's a sobering thought: Call to cut blood alcohol limit 'ill-informed' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)