Royal Brunei air & booze ?

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getting a BI flight soon & just wondering what the current situation is with booze. Have heard stories, that flight attendants won't touch any booze, but you can open your duty free & eg. they will give you glass with coke & ice & you add your own rum.

Don't think it can work for beer as how would you keep it cold, unless you started drinking shandies.

Anyone have any experience on BI recently ?
 
ozfflyer said:
getting a BI flight soon & just wondering what the current situation is with booze. Have heard stories, that flight attendants won't touch any booze, but you can open your duty free & eg. they will give you glass with coke & ice & you add your own rum.

Don't think it can work for beer as how would you keep it cold, unless you started drinking shandies.

Anyone have any experience on BI recently ?
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Just under 12 months ago was our last flight with them and have used them a few times.
Yes the FA’s won’t touch to booze and I even mix it out of their sight. Just purchase a couple of minis at MEL duty free. When you are finished with the bottles I put them in a non clear rubbish bag and dispose of them in the bin in the toilet. You can’t take left over alcohol off the aircraft so you will have to pour it out. Don’t go overboard with your drinks because if you appear intoxicated or smell like a brewery you could get a stern talking to at BWN.
No alcohol on the flight home though
 
jase05 said:
Just under 12 months ago was our last flight with them and have used them a few times.
Yes the FA’s won’t touch to booze and I even mix it out of their sight. Just purchase a couple of minis at MEL duty free. When you are finished with the bottles I put them in a non clear rubbish bag and dispose of them in the bin in the toilet. You can’t take left over alcohol off the aircraft so you will have to pour it out. Don’t go overboard with your drinks because if you appear intoxicated or smell like a brewery you could get a stern talking to at BWN.
No alcohol on the flight home though
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wondering if you could pack some minis in checked bags on way over & then carry them on in hand luggage at BWN on return flight ?
 
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ozfflyer said:
wondering if you could pack some minis in checked bags on way over & then carry them on in hand luggage at BWN on return flight ?
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From previous experience your carry on luggage will be vigorously searched at BWN and alcohol will be confiscated
 
A few years back a friend had a small round bottle taken off them at security in Brunei but they missed my hip flask
 
This is an interesting thread considering the troubles Aussies get up to overseas in places like Bali. If the rules were a bit stricter in Brunei then this might make the news more often as foreigners get locked up. You are essentially breaking the law if you bring in alcohol after all. Not really any different from a bodyboard bag full of weed.

Never flow them myself, but my reading of the situation has always been that you can take duty free onboard heading to BWN and mix yourself, but if connecting or staying, that's as far as the alcohol can go.
 
Don't get me wrong, I love a drink and can down the booze with the best of them, including drinking mates under the table (that was a fun night :cool:), and I'm about to spend the next 5 days drinking as much beer as I can handle.

So tea-totaller I am not. But can you not go a few hours without touching a drop that you effectively have to drink in secret?

Edit: Just noticed that this is a resurrected thread, but I think my point still stands.
 
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But can you not go a few hours without touching a drop that you effectively have to drink in secret?
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You're over-estimating the self control of the modern traveller. Replace "drop" with "bottom" and "drink" with "do same sex stuff" and there are many who apparently cannot. Nightmare place for LGBTI travellers who love a drink.
 
There are so many things that are wrong in the Arabian Peninsula, in so many ways, whether it be attacking minority groups, religions, race or whatever. It is only made worse when you see how some of the higher socially ranked individuals of said jurisdictions behave when away from home (London is the best place to witness this).

However, they do have some incredibly good airlines!

Which makes us all hypocrites in theory. Alan Joyce and Emirates anyone............

Apologies, rant over. 👍
 
Dec1971 said:
There are so many things that are wrong in the Arabian Peninsula, in so many ways, whether it be attacking minority groups, religions, race or whatever. It is only made worse when you see how some of the higher socially ranked individuals of said jurisdictions behave when away from home (London is the best place to witness this).

However, they do have some incredibly good airlines!

Which makes us all hypocrites in theory. Alan Joyce and Emirates anyone............

Apologies, rant over. 👍
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Um but Royal Brunei is not ME or Arabian Peninsula. And is not an incredibly good airline though is very cheap.
 
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