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Surat-Bangkok Flight Runs Out of Liquor, Passengers Finish Alcohol Worth 70,000 Baht


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48 minutes ago, webfact said:

4-hour flight unfolded, eager passengers enthusiastically consumed the onboard stock of premium alcoholic beverages, reportedly worth ฿70,000. The cabin crew found themselves announcing an alcohol shortage well before landing

I reckon some of the stock was misplaced, stolen, pilfered before departure or poor  stocktaking. 

 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Dan O said:

There must be something missing in the translation here as Surat Thani is only 1:10 min flight to bkk. It should be Surat India to bkk I think

passengers aboard Air India Express's inaugural flight from Surat (India) to Bangkok 

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5 minutes ago, Artisi said:

 

Reading comprehension lessons seem to be in order here 📖 😉

You weren't in the thread before changes were made.

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1 hour ago, vikc said:

Surat is a city in the province of Gujarat in India, which is a dry state i.e No Alcohol is allowed to be sold or consumed.

Therefore the excitement . As such the poor and the not so rich travel to Thailand from India, so for them this must have been a grand opportunity to indulge.

Whereas the rich and affluent lot head to the West .

Cheers

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Thanks for clarity. You would THINK that would be included in the article which didn't make clear even where Surat was right away in the title AND the interesting fact it's a dry state. Now it makes sense and is kind of funny. 

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I used to fly from Chennai to DMK almost monthly. They would regularly start passing around the duty free as soon as the doors closed. Why not? Large groups of workers headed to Pattaya for a few days. They were mostly OK, but standing in line at immigration drunk at 4am must have sucked.

Posted
3 hours ago, webfact said:

In an unprecedented turn of events, passengers aboard Air India Express's inaugural flight from Surat (India) to Bangkok managed to exhaust the plane's entire alcohol supply before reaching their destination.

Just warming up for the Thai experience

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The lively atmosphere and friendly interactions among passengers turned the flight into an unforgettable adventure. 

Creative revisionism at its finest. I expect it was more like;  The shouting and alcohol induced chaos of the cabin turned the flight into an unpleasant experience for those who did not wish to experience the lower caste Surat lifestyle. 

Why would anyone want to promote this embarrassing event? It's like celebrating the drunkards on the Ryanair flights to Ibiza.

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26 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The lively atmosphere and friendly interactions among passengers turned the flight into an unforgettable adventure. 

Creative revisionism at its finest. I expect it was more like;  The shouting and alcohol induced chaos of the cabin turned the flight into an unpleasant experience for those who did not wish to experience the lower caste Surat lifestyle. 

Why would anyone want to promote this embarrassing event? It's like celebrating the drunkards on the Ryanair flights to Ibiza.

It may have been picked up from Indian media which often writes in a colonial-style jolly japes style of English.

 

Or more likely somebody has provided the outline to AI and told it to write in a positive style.

Posted
2 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Possibly this one?

 

 

 

 

I don't think it is (the same flight)...    What we have is the usual media pile on, where a story strikes gold with a and attract a lot of attention (i.e. the Air Asia story above), then another story is found hoping that the recipe for attention remains the same...  

 

We have the same with other stores, it will be a spate of 'dog attacks' or 'Swiss misbehaving'... Wait for a Brit or an Aussie to do something wrong, then we'll load of bad-Brit / bad-Aussie stories that fuel the confirmation bias of unintelligent readers.... 

 

Now Indian's area clearly flavour of the month, so expect a few more stories about them before the media moves on to its next flavour...    

 

i.e. had the Air-Asia non-event of guys talking on a flight not drawn attention, this would never reach the media - its not the first flight to run out of food or booze etc - but after the Air-Asia story this story can now pile on the 'Indians are drunk annoying travellers rhetoric'....

 

 

Posted
4 hours ago, Dan O said:

There must be something missing in the translation here as Surat Thani is only 1:10 min flight to bkk. It should be Surat India to bkk I think

In an unprecedented turn of events, passengers aboard Air India Express's inaugural flight from Surat (India) to Bangkok 

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Meanwhile on my Thai airways business flight they tried to get away giving me a fruit juice drink as a welcome drink rather than champagne. To then right after I made the champagne happen and every other person in biz also wanted that, them announce that being drunk is not allowed etc etc.

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