Anonymous
Post 07/14/2014 10:10     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Very strange. I took a BA flight from London on the weekend and didn't experience this at all. Just offered a glass of wine if I wanted. The staff were extremely pleasant and brought extra drinks and chocolates for my kids. I've flown them a few times a year and never experienced this. Perhaps you're reading too much into some of it.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2014 09:14     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, this is odd. BA has this down to a science. They don't overstock alcohol on regularly scheduled flights. Plus they don't have open bottles of booze to pour into Cokes of unsuspecting passengers. They have the little "airline" bottles which they hand to the passengers. It is more effective for them that way.

I fly BA 2-4 month internationally and I have never had them do that. Your story is extremely odd.


+1


What's odd to me is the story that the alcohol needed to be offloaded. Why is that? Because otherwise it would ... go bad? It doesn't make sense.


Probably changing over to the new quarterly/semi-annual selections. Not hugely unusual.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 23:56     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:OP, this is odd. BA has this down to a science. They don't overstock alcohol on regularly scheduled flights. Plus they don't have open bottles of booze to pour into Cokes of unsuspecting passengers. They have the little "airline" bottles which they hand to the passengers. It is more effective for them that way.

I fly BA 2-4 month internationally and I have never had them do that. Your story is extremely odd.


Agree. I travel all the time (4 flights this week for example) and just don't see the behavior from either flight attendants or passengers that people on this site are always complaining about.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 23:40     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Well the Euros are less uptight about booze clearly...

Just say no, its an option.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 23:10     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe they want you all sleepy. Some flights they should just spray in the sleeping gas and put us all out of our misery for a few hours!


I can't stay awake on Lufthansa and the third time it made me kinda nervous.


Yes, I had a period of about a year on United where I could not stay awake through takeoff! I think they took lotsa O2 outta our cabin.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 22:12     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, this is odd. BA has this down to a science. They don't overstock alcohol on regularly scheduled flights. Plus they don't have open bottles of booze to pour into Cokes of unsuspecting passengers. They have the little "airline" bottles which they hand to the passengers. It is more effective for them that way.

I fly BA 2-4 month internationally and I have never had them do that. Your story is extremely odd.


+1


What's odd to me is the story that the alcohol needed to be offloaded. Why is that? Because otherwise it would ... go bad? It doesn't make sense.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 21:50     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:Maybe they want you all sleepy. Some flights they should just spray in the sleeping gas and put us all out of our misery for a few hours!


I can't stay awake on Lufthansa and the third time it made me kinda nervous.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 20:00     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:OP, this is odd. BA has this down to a science. They don't overstock alcohol on regularly scheduled flights. Plus they don't have open bottles of booze to pour into Cokes of unsuspecting passengers. They have the little "airline" bottles which they hand to the passengers. It is more effective for them that way.

I fly BA 2-4 month internationally and I have never had them do that. Your story is extremely odd.


+1
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 19:23     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
OP, this is odd. BA has this down to a science. They don't overstock alcohol on regularly scheduled flights. Plus they don't have open bottles of booze to pour into Cokes of unsuspecting passengers. They have the little "airline" bottles which they hand to the passengers. It is more effective for them that way.

I fly BA 2-4 month internationally and I have never had them do that. Your story is extremely odd.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 18:56     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Maybe they want you all sleepy. Some flights they should just spray in the sleeping gas and put us all out of our misery for a few hours!
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 17:26     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you switch seats so the 14 yo wasn't in the solo spot?

They probably assumed he was 18 since he didn't look like he was traveling with family (and they would have known if he was an unaccompanied minor).


+1 That was my first thought.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2014 17:24     Subject: British Airways Pushing Wine on International Flight--Is this Normal?
I was also wondering why you or your wife didn't switch seats with him before the flight took off, and then again after it became clear they weren't going to stop offering alcohol. Who sequesters a kid from the rest of the family? One of the adults should have switched seats. Weird.