Gifts for cabin crew

[Lost Redditor]

Male right?

Correct

This year, though, I have a toddler with me. Luckily hes gets his own suitcase + extra travel items. So not travelling quite as light this year

 

[TheRealTMA]

IMHO Gifts for cabin attendants are a silly idea. Who tips the pilot? Silly creeping Americanisms .

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Who tips the pilot?

Tips no - a memorable token gift 100% - some pax do think outside the square

Burt we don’t live in Russia - everybody free to choose any path they want to follow - totally out of order to suggest anybody’s actions in gifting to crew is ‘silly’ - your view and you are entitled to it - others are entitled to their view

 

[Franky]

Bring some TimTams for your Euro flights - they're a real treat in Northern Europe. Much coveted. I'm bringing a dozen packages for my trip to Norway later this year. Most for family, but a couple for the Finnair staff

As well as arrivals in LA…

 

[RooFlyer]

IMHO Gifts for cabin attendants are a silly idea. Who tips the pilot? Silly creeping Americanisms .

Hopefully the pilots got a chokkie each from the box I gave the SQ CSM.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hopefully the pilots got a chokkie each from the box I gave the SQ CSM.

Unlikely!

And hopefullly none of the crew or pilots eat "gifts" given to them while during a flight.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

And hopefullly none of the crew or pilots eat "gifts" given to them while during a flight.

Now this intrigues me - may I ask ‘why not’?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Now this intrigues me - May I ask ‘Why not’?

Maybe unlikely but possibilty of "strange substances" in gifts. Seems to be bad practice for cabin staff and especially pilots to eat food from non-vetted external sources during a flight.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Ok let me run that notion past the flight crew on 217 2hrs time - rest assured I will report back

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So I have way moved on from gifting chocolates but in the interest of ‘Gifting Research’ I grabbed these pre boarding:

I will hand on to Cabin Crew and report back

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Maybe unlikely but possibilty of "strange substances" in gifts. Seems to be bad practice for cabin staff and especially pilots to eat food from non-vetted external sources during a flight.

Well this myth is busted - chockies handed to IFM David pre take-off - within 30mins take-off couple crew members came and thanked me for chockies as they had already consumed their ‘energy fix’ - David returned and thanked me again for the gift and he had distributed to everyone except Flight Crew and he was on his way right then to do so.

I specifically asked him - ‘Are Flight Crew permitted to consume chocolates etc during flight gifted by pax?’ - he simply shrugged his shoulders and stated ‘Why not’

More to come - I have been granted ‘An Audience With The Pope’ - sorry I have been invited to meet with Captain in coughpit post arr into MEL

 

[TheRealTMA]

Well this myth is busted - chockies handed to IFM David pre take-off - within 30mins take-off couple crew members came and thanked me for chockies as they had already consumed their ‘energy fix’ - David returned and thanked me again for the gift and he had distributed to everyone except Flight Crew and he was on his way right then to do so.

I specifically asked him - ‘Are Flight Crew permitted to consume chocolates etc during flight gifted by pax?’ - he simply shrugged his shoulders and stated ‘Why not’

More to come - I have been granted ‘An Audience With The Pope’ - sorry I have been invited to meet with Captain in coughpit post arr into MEL

That seems a dangerous proceedure. Little bit of LSD in chocolates for the pilots and cabin staff would not be advanteagous to passangers.

One never knows who one is dealing with.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

That seems a dangerous proceedure. Little bit of LSD in chocolates for the pilots and cabin staff would not be advanteagous to passangers.

Yes wouldn’t that be a fabulous movie theme for Hollywood - George Clooney the Captain taken out by poisoned Mars bar - Julia Roberts the timid scared aerophobiac somehow summons the courage to take control and is ‘talked down’ to a safe landing by Arnie - ‘Gold Class’ here I come

 

[milehighclub]

That seems a dangerous proceedure. Little bit of LSD in chocolates for the pilots and cabin staff would not be advanteagous to passangers.

Yeah and you'd be a really dumb criminal to poison chocolate and personally hand it to them in an environment you cannot escape where the crew could find out everything about you. I don't even think The Mystery Machine would respond to a call for help on that one. Pilots, whilst one might enjoy a chocolate, do have strict rules on what they can eat, so it would, at worst, cause a diversion because if one pilot ate one, the other wouldn't, as is the rule for all food they eat.

 

[milehighclub]

Yes wouldn’t that be a fabulous movie theme for Hollywood - George Clooney the Captain taken out by poisoned Mars bar - Julia Roberts the timid scared aerophobiac somehow summons the courage to take control and is ‘talked down’ to a safe landing by Arnie - ‘Gold Class’ here I come

It would also make a great episode of border security cause those dogs are gonna go off when they smell all that LSD from the passenger

 

[TheRealTMA]

It would also make a great episode of border security cause those dogs are gonna go off when they smell all that LSD from the passenger

Dogs can't small LSD, especially in chocolates! It only takes micrograms to be "effective".

 

[TheRealTMA]

Yeah and you'd be a really dumb criminal to poison chocolate and personally hand it to them in an environment you cannot escape where the crew could find out everything about you. I don't even think The Mystery Machine would respond to a call for help on that one. Pilots, whilst one might enjoy a chocolate, do have strict rules on what they can eat, so it would, at worst, cause a diversion because if one pilot ate one, the other wouldn't, as is the rule for all food they eat.

Well, I'm not proposing any activities nor suggesting paranoia, but there are concerning individuals everywhere. Just like the ones who led to the liquids bans by smuggling hydrogen peroxide and sulphuric acid and tried to make TATP in plane toilets, or the fellow who tried to set off the TATP he had taped to his stomach with a lighter.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

And they love them:

Grace got her 1st one on 228 Mar 24 - in her words ‘attached to my bag before I got off plane’ - and gets her 2nd one today

So where are those dudes posting about ‘creeping cabin crew out’? - crawled back under their rocks have they?

 

[Flashback]

Just flew from KEF to LHR and the crew reverse gifted me these. Said they had some QF crew on board who gave them to them. I've never even seen these before!

 

[RooFlyer]

Just flew from KEF to LHR and the crew reverse gifted me these. Said they had some QF crew on board who gave them to them. I've never even seen these before!

Something about that route. When I flew it on BA quite a few years ago, the red wine on offer was “Kanga Rouge“