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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like the flight attendant explained the situation perfectly clearly. They were "pushing" wine because they wanted to clear their inventory. All your DS had to do was say, "No thanks."

And yes, booze is free on international flights. [/quote]

Oh, I understand the first time, it was a full flight and I'm sure they can't ID every passenger. It was the times AFTER he, and then me, made it clear that he was underage (I should mention that the vast majority of the time it was the same flight attendant that served our cabin, I'm not talking about a mixup between different attendants.

And I get why they wanted to clear their inventory, but it is just crazy to me that they would rather a drunk load of passengers on a redeye flight rather then wasting a bit of inventory. I think they should have had a more appropriate inventory (and no, this was a full flight, not a case of having an inventory for a full flight, but only having half a flightload).

I manage/partially own a grocery store for a living. We don't order 500 of a fruit that goes bad in a week if we only sell 100 a week on average, we would normally oder maybe 125-150, 200 at most if we think that they will be popular that week. It seemed like that was happening on this flight.

Especially if you are giving it away for free.

Also, my religion does not forbid alcohol, and yes, I have been known to have a drink or two here and there, but I don't want my kids to grow up to think it is perfectly fine to get smashed on an airplane. And also, moderation is an importent lesson to kids, especially at that age where more likely then not they will be exposed to alcohol at parties, and elsewhere pretty soon. If you were their, what you would learn from this flight would be that drinking way too much for the situation is perfectly fine as long as everyone else was doing it, and as long as it was being pushed on you.[/quote]

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