Cap the Chardonnay: Free booze on Asian airlines may be halted

[baboon]

1 hour ago, Nerone said:

I think they should not allow any alcoholic drinks on flights, just for safety and health/dehidration reasons

Saudi Arabian Airlines are wating for your call.

Me, I'll quaff a few and take my chances with the health, safety and dehydration issues while I still can...

[Grouse]

My goodness, what silly nonsense on here!

 

I've been flying very many years and until flying domestic in Thailand was never on a flight that didn't have drinks for all.

 

Difference between business and economy is that one gets Champagne

 

"Now Everyone Can Fly"! What a damned stupid idea that was!! I blame Freddy Laker!

 

I always fly business and dress appropriately. My goodness you should see some of the peasants that turn right now! No wonder there's trouble if they're offered a snifter!

 

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[impulse]

On 12/7/2016 at 3:08 PM, baboon said:

It's like the airlines are in competition with one another to provide the most miserable travelling experience...

 

They haven't made it more miserable.  We have only ourselves to blame.  Each time we go to Orbitz and buy the cheapest fare, we tell them what's important to us.  They're just responding to what we're all asking for.  Demanding, in fact.  If we don't like cattle class, we can always get better treatment -for more money- in the front of the plane.

 

Adjusted for inflation, I can still get a business class ticket today cheaper than a coach class ticket before deregulation.  I can fly R/T Houston-BKK for about the same price (maybe even less than) it used to cost to fly R/T Houston-Chicago.  The trade-off is the level of comfort and convenience.

 

I, for one appreciate the choice.  Save the money and fly cattle class, or splurge and be more comfortable for a few hours at a significant cost per hour.  I'll save the money.

[baboon]

59 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

They haven't made it more miserable.  We have only ourselves to blame.  Each time we go to Orbitz and buy the cheapest fare, we tell them what's important to us.  They're just responding to what we're all asking for.  Demanding, in fact.  If we don't like cattle class, we can always get better treatment -for more money- in the front of the plane.

 

Adjusted for inflation, I can still get a business class ticket today cheaper than a coach class ticket before deregulation.  I can fly R/T Houston-BKK for about the same price (maybe even less than) it used to cost to fly R/T Houston-Chicago.  The trade-off is the level of comfort and convenience.

 

I, for one appreciate the choice.  Save the money and fly cattle class, or splurge and be more comfortable for a few hours at a significant cost per hour.  I'll save the money.

If you buy the cheapest discount ticket or the full fare one, the seat and the cabin are exactly the same for the class of travel, so not really.

[impulse]

12 minutes ago, baboon said:

If you buy the cheapest discount ticket or the full fare one, the seat and the cabin are exactly the same for the class of travel, so not really.

 

Gotta be honest.  I've never gone to Orbitz and bought the most expensive fare for any flights.  

 

And when I choose a United flight because it's $10 cheaper than a Delta flight, I'm telling both airlines what's important to me and what I'm willing to pay for.  They're just responding to my input (and the input of millions like me) who tell them to take cost out of their product if they want my business.  Which forces them to reduce the level of service.

 

I'm sure they'd all love to bring back the golden days of opulent air travel.  But we show them time and again that we won't pay for it when cheap cattle class is an available option. 

[baboon]

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Gotta be honest.  I've never gone to Orbitz and bought the most expensive fare for any flights.  

 

And when I choose a United flight because it's $10 cheaper than a Delta flight, I'm telling both airlines what's important to me and what I'm willing to pay for.  They're just responding to my input (and the input of millions like me) who tell them to take cost out of their product if they want my business.  Which forces them to reduce the level of service.

 

I'm sure they'd all love to bring back the golden days of opulent air travel.  But we show them time and again that we won't pay for it when cheap cattle class is an available option. 

We might be at slightly cross purposes here. You mention United v Delta and the $10 difference. What I was saying is that each and every airline have wildly varying prices for the same seat on their plane. Turn up at the office, tell them you want to go to Bangkok and be quoted £1472 for the ticket they want to flog you, which is their full fare economy, or log into Ebookers or wherever and get exactly the same thing on the same plane on the same date for £525. 

Now, you may have opted for the more expensive ticket but the product would be exactly the same miserably cramped seat and it would cost the airline the same amount to carry you from A to B, which surely be less than the £525 ticket, so it can't be the money alone...

[Thaidream]

The whole business model is to charge one as much as possible and provide the least amount of service possible and to make the choices as confusing as possible with so many varying prices based on different days of departure and different times. The one constant is greed. There is no thought to providing a good service; a fair price and an enjoyable experience. Every airline that I have flown over many years started out with good service at a fair price but over the years have adopted the same model. They don't see to care about repeat business. Let's make it now and the heck with the future. The poster with the luggage issue is a prime example- the airline could have accommodated he and his family on their luggage issue but refused and they have lost a customer for life. 

[AhFarangJa]

21 hours ago, farcanell said:

Lol.... I've had to resort to cheap travel recently, so I buy a half liter bottle duty free, then open it on board and dose myself... abandoning any leftovers in the seat pocket.... and buy more duty free when landing.

I believe, according to FAA rules that it is illegal on most flights to consume your own alcohol......Mainly so the crew know who has consumed what......But please feel free to contradict me.....I am only human...( I Think !!! )

[AhFarangJa]

Regarding Standards......my family and I left Saudi in August for good ( Yeeeeeeaaaahhhhh !!!! )....Sorry........We flew First Class from Bahrain on Gulf Air......Before you used to get a choice of steaks or fish etc cooked to your taste for main meal, no more......Fixed meals now.......Also,  Breakfast was a plate of three pieces of fruit and tea or coffee.....no more sausage and omelette etc.

A definite cost cutting exercise sold under the guise of a healthy option.

I did however manage to make up for it with my consumption of the Champagne, Wine, and Bacardi's....

[farcanell]

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

I believe, according to FAA rules that it is illegal on most flights to consume your own alcohol......Mainly so the crew know who has consumed what......But please feel free to contradict me.....I am only human...( I Think !!! )

 

Your probably right.... you just gotta be a bit sneaky about it... and know your limitations to avoid making as ass out of yourself.

 

if that makes me a bad person, then I'm a bad person, who has broken a rule, but less bad than, for example, someone riding a motorbike without a license... or helmet, so I guess I'll just have to live with that.... cause I'm only human as well ?