deegee Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 No point trying to be pious about it; for a lot of folk of all ages, it’s a bit fun to have a breakfast drink in an airport as they head off to somewhere more exciting than where they live for a few days. I travel a lot (nowhere far) by plane and happy for a coffee as it’s on work time, but have no qualms getting on the beer at 7am for a holiday trip. it’s not the drink, it’s the tolerance of bam behaviour. There should be more stringent rules as you board as well as massive fines for any on board misconduct. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 I said I'll not be paying for headphones. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 22 minutes ago, welshbairn said: APL? Sorry CPL, commerical pilots license. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 The problem could be largely solved if the SNP altered the legislation making it mandatory for people to have an airport pint and post the resultant photo on Facebook. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 20 minutes ago, deegee said: No point trying to be pious about it; for a lot of folk of all ages, it’s a bit fun to have a breakfast drink in an airport as they head off to somewhere more exciting than where they live for a few days. I travel a lot (nowhere far) by plane and happy for a coffee as it’s on work time, but have no qualms getting on the beer at 7am for a holiday trip. it’s not the drink, it’s the tolerance of bam behaviour. There should be more stringent rules as you board as well as massive fines for any on board misconduct. I've been on loads of flights too and have never seen any seriously bad behaviour, more than mildly annoying, and even that's been rare. Might be because it's usually been out of season, but the media pick up every incident for click bait, I'm confident it isn't that common, and it would proper annoy me if it stopped me having a couple of pints before getting on the plane and maybe a large G+T on it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 19 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: The problem could be largely solved if the SNP altered the legislation making it mandatory for people to have an airport pint and post the resultant photo on Facebook. Think that's a reserved matter, as indicated by the number of similar photos posted from East Midlands and Leeds-Bradford 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 I heard a story of the late Barry Humphries who was a performance artist when he started out. The bold Barry used to buy some potato salad or similar and take it on board the plane. After takeoff he would go into the toilet, take a sick bag and scoop the potato salad into the bag. He'd return to his seat and pretend to be violently sick, then take a spoon, put it into the bag and eat the contents... He was apparently banned from Quantas for life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonksy+HisChristianParade Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Pints in the airport is fucking brilliant. Anyone who says otherwise is a very suspicious person imo. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 13 minutes ago, Bonksy+HisChristianParade said: Pints in the airport is fucking brilliant. Anyone who says otherwise is a very suspicious person imo. 4.30am pint in the airport is marvellous. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 3 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Dunno if folk remember that film ‘the fifth element’ but there was a bit where the characters got on a spaceship and the done thing was to knock people out for the duration of the flight, cant help but think that should be looked at. You might think twice when you remember that shagging Ruby Rhod was part of that hypersleep procedure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 17 hours ago, 101 said: Would imagine Ryanair would ban them for life. I doubt that. Ryanair are the Old Firm of the aviation industry. Happy to tolerate any kind of vermin type behaviour from their 'customers' as long as the money keeps rolling in. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Hopefully Ryanair: 1) cancelled their return ticket; and 2) banned them for life. Wouldn't be surprised if they did (1) and then happily let them buy an expensive ticket to get them home. People behaving like that on an aircraft should be banned from all airlines and maybe the message will start to sink in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Personally, the last thing I want at 6am or anywhere near it, is a pint of beer. In an airport or indeed anywhere. Fcuk that, but if someone wants to make me a square sausage & tattie scone doubler, brown or tomato sauce, and a walloping big mug of tea before boarding a flight - I’ll be there. If anyone does enjoy an airport 6am pint as a holiday starter for ten, fair do’s. Each to their own. I don’t have any problem with early morning airport pints. I just have a general problem, not limited to airports, with braindead ned kunts. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 A Ryanair anomaly. A couple of times a year, I travel with "out of gauge" hold luggage. It's around 4.5m/15' in length. All airlines use a common facility for checking it's OK: they typically open it up, inspect and swab it. But before that stage, I have to take it to the baggage check-in. Absolutely every other airline balks at it, at this point. Ryanair staff cheerily joke about getting it on the scales properly, and are generally unfazed. I have no explanation for this, but would add it's a common experience amongst those of us who fly with this particular sort of gear. So in this particular case, the arsehole airline does brilliantly. As I say, an anomaly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 47 minutes ago, pozbaird said: I don’t have any problem with early morning airport pints. I just have a general problem, not limited to airports, with braindead ned kunts. That's the main issue, really. In everyday life folk generally work and socialise with people who are similar to themselves. Airports, supermarkets and roads are some of the few places where you have to share your time with the populace at large, and that's why they are the source of 83% of grumblings on the general nonsense forum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Flew Ryanair couple years back from Prestwick to Alicante - I know, I know, I only have myself to blame. It was a last minute trip and was quite easy to fly into Alicante then travel up to Valencia for a few days. There was a big family group, all pished, who clearly hadn't checked their tickets beforehand and assumed they would all be sat together. When they discovered that they weren't and the cabin crew instructed them to sit down and stop trying to get people to shift, they kicked off and started shouting some quite vile stuff at the crew and nearby passengers who told them to shut it. Tbh, I was amazed that they weren't kicked off the flight before take off. Chaos ensued again half way to Alicante when the crew refused to serve them any more drink as they were in an embarrassing state. The rest of the flight was horrendous. A mix of these folk loudly proclaiming stuff along the lines of that "everyone on here is c**t". There was police waiting at the gate for them. Hopefully they were put on the first flight home and ruined their holiday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 12 hours ago, welshbairn said: APL? 34, M, Dumfries. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, sugna said: A Ryanair anomaly. A couple of times a year, I travel with "out of gauge" hold luggage. It's around 4.5m/15' in length. All airlines use a common facility for checking it's OK: they typically open it up, inspect and swab it. But before that stage, I have to take it to the baggage check-in. Absolutely every other airline balks at it, at this point. Ryanair staff cheerily joke about getting it on the scales properly, and are generally unfazed. I have no explanation for this, but would add it's a common experience amongst those of us who fly with this particular sort of gear. So in this particular case, the arsehole airline does brilliantly. As I say, an anomaly. Are you a polevaulter ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bialystock Posted February 22 Popular Post Share Posted February 22 1 minute ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Are you a polevaulter ? No, I'm German. But how did you know my name was Walter? 41 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 We had saved enough British Airways Avios points to get an affordable upgrade to business class two weeks ago from Los Angeles to London. The scheduled aircraft was meant to be an A350 (I think) that had been fitted out with the brand new BA business class cabin layout. The aircraft was changed to a Boeing 777 with the older layout. Big deal, not a problem, eh? Not for a woman in the row in front of me. As we enjoyed the rewards of hoovering up Avios at every opportunity and settled down with a cheeky wee glass of fizz, she started giving a steward pelters. She wanted the new style business seat, hated the older BA product. Didn’t afford her the right level of privacy. She wanted to know who to write to to complain. I dealt with this brewing, possibly escalating situation by simply quaffing a second glass of bubbly and pondering the merits of the Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon with my main course. Flight was fabulous. She sat down in a huffy fit and mumbled to herself for a few minutes before possibly realising she was being an utter walloper. Now I need more Avios. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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