Considering how long it takes the trolley to move down a plane especially when people are buying stuff, I somehow doubt they were carrying much. Or someone bought the lot for everyone at the start for some reason.
What kind of school relies on children buying junk food on a train as a sensible way to keep them fed while on a multi-hour journey? Completely irresponsible behaviour imo.
I'm not sure quidditch is any less dangerous than the games of bulldog or rugby we played at school in the 90s. And we didn't have magical healing spells.
Feels like falling 50-100m or so out the sky after being concussed by a flying ball designed to hurt you would cause a bit more injury than British bulldog
Several children injured and one killed by a giant snake hiding somewhere in the school.
School response: well, we might have to think about closing if this carries on.
He said Brit travellers are “more high-spend, more hedonistic.”
“We sold out of beer and wine 25 minutes after departure; we haven’t done that in any other market,” he said.
He said every drop of beer and wine on board the plane, which departed a UK airport, was gone within half an hour.
He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed.
>He said every drop of beer and wine on board the plane, which departed a UK airport, was gone within half an hour
Considering how long it takes the trolley to move down a plane especially when people are buying stuff, I somehow doubt they were carrying much. Or someone bought the lot for everyone at the start for some reason.
E.g there is likely something more special about the situation than just hedonic Brits.
>there is likely something more special about the situation
It literally says in the article it was a one off flight by a Turkish airline for a group of brits going away on a golfing trip
So in other words a group of brits chartered a flight for a big piss up abroad and the Turkish airline gave them the same amount of booze as they would on any of their normal flights, which if they're Turkish I assume usually contain a large number of Muslim passengers who don't drink in public. Obviously a chartered plane specifically for a boozy session abroad is going to need significantly more alcohol than a regular flight but I guess the airline must've either not known what they were signing up for or didn't do their research on Brits abroad.
They are little ‘snack’ sized cans, pathetic… almost like a kids party bag sized beer.
I always remember an Air Sri Lanka Stewardess apologising to me on a night flight because they ‘only’ had Pint cans of Stella.
I was on a night flight to LA and was just steadily ordering whisky and cokes, and rum and ginger ale for a few hours, which came in those mini single shot bottles and a separate can. They served me roughly 10 or something before they said no more booze. I wasn't drunk, or even acting remotely drunk. Managed to circumvent the regular stewardess who cut me off and convince this sweet old lady in the kitchen area to sneak me a few more. This was in business class.
Conversely it's a lot harder to get drunk when you need to take out a mortgage just to afford enough of the tiny cans they hand out to actually get you drunk.
I mean if people normally drink pints then you start giving them 250ml cans they will find it harder to drink responsibly.
I run a pub, I see this in action when people decide to switch to halves because they don't want to drink too much and end up drinking considerably more.
There's also the first/last gulp effect: You're more likely to take a big gulp when you first open a drink and then again to finish off the last bit. The smaller the drink, the larger the effect this has on overall drinking speed.
This happened on a flight I was on to Barcelona last year, there were a couple of rugby teams on the plane, all sat at the back, by the time the trolley got half way down the aisle the beer had all gone.
Flew from Japan to UK last month, they has 12 beers for the entire flight. They ran out of basically everything except water by the end of the flight, their own fault.
Was on a flight last year, group of lads on a work weekend away were buying beers before the trolley was even in the aisle. The guy bought something like 24 cans, he wanted more but they wouldn’t let him in one transaction. Got chatting to one of the younger lads near the loo and he was already close to wrecked. Nice bunch though and absolutely zero trouble to any of the passengers or crew.
Had a group like this on a flight to Spain once. Mid flight a few of them were queuing in the aisle for the toilet, near to my seat. I was playing fifa on my ps vita, scored an absolute banger from the halfway line and the lads just erupted into cheers which startled everyone on the plane briefly. Made my day 🤣
My last experience with drunk people on a plane was them harassing us (and the flight attendants) for the whole flight because they held the plane for 20 minutes waiting for 2 people to show up so that they could bump us.
I thought there was a limit per passenger? I think the staff is told to keep an eye on a passenger if they have a little too much. 24 does qualifies as too much in my book…
I have seen passenger being refused boarding because they were drunk. I wonder why the stewards and hostesses allowed them to buy so much. I can only assume Ryanair&co cares more about sales than safety.
Incorrect, they don't serve alcohol whilst the doors are open. Once doors are closed they are good to go. I've done 96 flights with Qatar Airways over the years and never not been served alcohol once in air during Ramadan.
1. Yes
2. Yes, the passenger next to me (Muslim) had to quickly swallow his tea as the sun had just set and we were landing in seconds, so certainly over Dubai.
I don’t see anything wrong in what these folk did. There’s no reports of arrests or violence. I’ve nothing to wind my neck in over. I’m not mocking the tourists. It’s typical British humour, a Brit wins say at tiddywinks and someone might say ‘let’s not hear about the British never accomplishing anything.’
It’s more mocking of those who make such statements about how the British have nothing to be proud of.
If I turned up to a party with a 6 pack of beer in England I’d get asked “is that it? Are you feeling okay?” But in America that’s all they’ll have. And it’s light.
I got drinking vodka with a Polish grandmother at a wedding once. Never again.
It wasn't a competition or showing off by anyone, she just demolished us all without trying.
Friends and I was emptied a plane from Amsterdam to London, but honestly that just took us 3/4 beers per person. There just aren’t that many beers on such a flight, so it’s not that hard to empty it.
Why is this news? The plane I was on recently ran out of ham and cheese sandwiches and pretty much all hot meals, yet let’s shame the brits for alcohol I guess.
I flew to Mexico last month and it was out of beer after a couple of hours (I'd had two cans) then wine and there were just a few whiskeys left by the time we landed. BA from Gatwick took off approx 10am.
> He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed.
Worth neither a click, nor a post, nor a thread.
...nor a comment, but I'm not a smart cookie.
The Emirates flight from Glasgow to Dubai has to hold double the amount of alcohol compared to other flights. Always found that funny. There is also 3 times the normal amount of immigration police when you get off...
Speaking as air crew this headline is extremely misleading, while there are quite large nuggets of truth in there I do need to point out that the Sun express aircraft will have come in from Turkey first and not be recatered on the ground in the UK so the flight to Turkey has what is left in the bar from the outbound flight, therefore it is very easy for them to have ran out so soon on that flight...
Was once on a flight out of Chennai heading to Dubai, airplane full of Indian dudes heading out for work in Dubai, knowing they're about to spend god knows how long in an essentially dry country for them. It was fucking mayhem. Dudes hammering the call button to get the cabin crew to bring them more and more booze. Less than an hour in, completely dry.
Flight attendant took pity on me and my colleague who just wanted some beers, got us a couple of cans each early on and said that's probably all we're gonna get.
He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed.
On a "special flight"
So............
I was allowed to get my own Tsingtao from the galley on a flight from China by the flight crew! I was drinking can for can with an Aussie but he needed to sleep after 6 hours.
I was really polite and nice to the crew as they'd stop serving anybody but us 2 after about 3 hours in.......
Could just be me because I did the £10 1st class upgrade on the London to Liverpool train and after asking for my 2nd free bottle of Guinness they brought another 2 with it!
Its funny because under this post there is a video from a clubhouse. A fellow guy drinks something with a British girl and the drink is so strong that the guy just passes out and falls on the floor while the girl keeps on dancing like she had water loool
"SunExpress’s German-American boss Max Kownatzki told trade publication TTG **that one special flight** operated by the Turkish airline for a group of Brits on a golfing break was drunk dry in the space of 25 minutes.
He said every drop of beer and wine on board the plane, which departed a UK airport, was gone within half an hour.
He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed."
So not your average package holiday flight then.
A private charter for a bunch of golfers who got rid of the beer and wine.
Amateurs! What about the Bloody Marys, G&T chasers with ice and a slice, followed by "Irish" coffee. That's the proper way do drain a British flight dry.
“Makes ya right prouhd soh it Das”. (Wipes away errant tear as he casually and without realising it, softly hums GSTQ to himself-he has nothing against Chaz, just prefers *Her Madge* God Rest her.)
Bazza, Aged 63, Alcohol enthusiast, Fry up connoisseur, footy expert, Patriotic Patriot.
Well, you got yourself on this flight to Turkey, now what's the next step in your master plan?
...Smashing all the booze on this plane... Including the pre-mixed screwdrivers!
Once on a flight from London to Belgrade, a Serbian guy and I were the only two in business class and the trolley spent most of its time with us. We also ran out of beer.
I remember many years ago flying back from India. It wasn't direct and we stopped in Abu Dhabi and a load of oil workers got on who have been dry for their six week or whatever shifts.. After that if you asked for a beer they'd just give hand you six small beers at a time as that's what all the oil people wanted.
That flight knew their market and didn't run out.
Sounds like the airline strategically stocked bare minimum alcohol to save themselves from the inevitable shit storm of trouble that was bound to happen. Good thinking
Considering how long it takes the trolley to move down a plane especially when people are buying stuff, I somehow doubt they were carrying much. Or someone bought the lot for everyone at the start for some reason.
This is what happens in real life when you reenact the trolley scene from Harry Potter!
Spoilt kid of bounty hunter parents buys entire trolley of sweets so Year 7 kids starve on first day of school
What kind of school relies on children buying junk food on a train as a sensible way to keep them fed while on a multi-hour journey? Completely irresponsible behaviour imo.
Yeah Hogwarts is super responsible otherwise - unless you count the giant man-eating spiders, capriciously violent griffins, literal fucking basilisks and numerous, poorly controlled yet deadly potions.
Moving staircases, whomping willow, massive three headed dog poorly locked up, everything about quidditch and the forbidden forest
What I'm gathering from this is that Hogwarts is a bit of a Health and Safety nightmare
Surprised OFSTED hasn’t been in and shut them down
Probably because it’s a private school
I'm not sure quidditch is any less dangerous than the games of bulldog or rugby we played at school in the 90s. And we didn't have magical healing spells.
Feels like falling 50-100m or so out the sky after being concussed by a flying ball designed to hurt you would cause a bit more injury than British bulldog
"Hey kids, welcome to AS Chemistry. Today we're making rohypnol."
Damn that sorcerer, 20 gold pieces and I'm *wankered* on *rohypnol*
Several children injured and one killed by a giant snake hiding somewhere in the school. School response: well, we might have to think about closing if this carries on.
A magical school created by a bigot
Who Slytherin or Rowling?
Yes
‘i’ll … Ill uh, uh … yeah Ben, I’ve got the baggie, i’ll pass it after … uh. Yeah. i’ll take the lot’
He said Brit travellers are “more high-spend, more hedonistic.” “We sold out of beer and wine 25 minutes after departure; we haven’t done that in any other market,” he said. He said every drop of beer and wine on board the plane, which departed a UK airport, was gone within half an hour. He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed.
Turns out there was only one. It was me.
"AH DID IT LIKE THIS!"
Father Jack, is that you?
>He said every drop of beer and wine on board the plane, which departed a UK airport, was gone within half an hour Considering how long it takes the trolley to move down a plane especially when people are buying stuff, I somehow doubt they were carrying much. Or someone bought the lot for everyone at the start for some reason. E.g there is likely something more special about the situation than just hedonic Brits.
>there is likely something more special about the situation It literally says in the article it was a one off flight by a Turkish airline for a group of brits going away on a golfing trip So in other words a group of brits chartered a flight for a big piss up abroad and the Turkish airline gave them the same amount of booze as they would on any of their normal flights, which if they're Turkish I assume usually contain a large number of Muslim passengers who don't drink in public. Obviously a chartered plane specifically for a boozy session abroad is going to need significantly more alcohol than a regular flight but I guess the airline must've either not known what they were signing up for or didn't do their research on Brits abroad.
"Makes you proud to be British" - Winston Churchill
They are little ‘snack’ sized cans, pathetic… almost like a kids party bag sized beer. I always remember an Air Sri Lanka Stewardess apologising to me on a night flight because they ‘only’ had Pint cans of Stella.
I mean its reasonable to only have one unit cans on a plane. Drunk passengers are a very bad idea.
I was on a night flight to LA and was just steadily ordering whisky and cokes, and rum and ginger ale for a few hours, which came in those mini single shot bottles and a separate can. They served me roughly 10 or something before they said no more booze. I wasn't drunk, or even acting remotely drunk. Managed to circumvent the regular stewardess who cut me off and convince this sweet old lady in the kitchen area to sneak me a few more. This was in business class.
You put away an impressive amount of alcohol.
I'm a big dude, and it was over a few hours though.
That’s half a litre of spirits without your extras sheeeesh.
10 shots is nowhere near half a litre. 5 doubles? That’s a quiet night.
I’ve only ever seen miniature bottles that are 50ml, not 25ml. Definitely always 50ml on every flight I’ve taken.
50ml is a double measure every flight I've ever taken its been 25ml
I would say that's half a litre too..
It's easier to get drunk when you're drinking an unfamiliar size drink.
Conversely it's a lot harder to get drunk when you need to take out a mortgage just to afford enough of the tiny cans they hand out to actually get you drunk.
Even Turkish Cans have the volume and % on the label. If people disregard that information it’s a conscious decision, not an accident.
I mean if people normally drink pints then you start giving them 250ml cans they will find it harder to drink responsibly. I run a pub, I see this in action when people decide to switch to halves because they don't want to drink too much and end up drinking considerably more. There's also the first/last gulp effect: You're more likely to take a big gulp when you first open a drink and then again to finish off the last bit. The smaller the drink, the larger the effect this has on overall drinking speed.
It was just one guy in business class...
Might have been an on-board bar? I was once on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Mumbai, sat next to the bar - a good time was had.
This happened on a flight I was on to Barcelona last year, there were a couple of rugby teams on the plane, all sat at the back, by the time the trolley got half way down the aisle the beer had all gone.
Flew from Japan to UK last month, they has 12 beers for the entire flight. They ran out of basically everything except water by the end of the flight, their own fault.
Was on a flight last year, group of lads on a work weekend away were buying beers before the trolley was even in the aisle. The guy bought something like 24 cans, he wanted more but they wouldn’t let him in one transaction. Got chatting to one of the younger lads near the loo and he was already close to wrecked. Nice bunch though and absolutely zero trouble to any of the passengers or crew.
RIP Wade Boggs
Wade Boggs is very much alive!
Exactly! And that's why we're doing this, to honour his memory! Rest in peace, Wade.
Again wade boggs is very much alive
Fun
I bet he got those duke boys in the end RIP
You got it, boss hoss.
Had a group like this on a flight to Spain once. Mid flight a few of them were queuing in the aisle for the toilet, near to my seat. I was playing fifa on my ps vita, scored an absolute banger from the halfway line and the lads just erupted into cheers which startled everyone on the plane briefly. Made my day 🤣
I love this story!
Fun times love happiness
My last experience with drunk people on a plane was them harassing us (and the flight attendants) for the whole flight because they held the plane for 20 minutes waiting for 2 people to show up so that they could bump us.
What do you mean bump you?
Bump us to the next flight because they overbooked.
[David Boon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boon#Personality,_personal_life_and_legacy) chimes in.
I thought there was a limit per passenger? I think the staff is told to keep an eye on a passenger if they have a little too much. 24 does qualifies as too much in my book… I have seen passenger being refused boarding because they were drunk. I wonder why the stewards and hostesses allowed them to buy so much. I can only assume Ryanair&co cares more about sales than safety.
I was on a flight back from Peru years ago. The plane was drank dry because they didnt fully restock the plane None story
I had a connecting flight from Qatar to Abu Dhabi during Ramadan. They don't serve alcohol during Ramadan :/
times like this are why I always have a joint up my arse on a long flight
Beef or lamb
Machine cut dovetail joint, obviously.
Pork
Fuckong brilliant!!
I'm never eating beef again.
What about pork?
I hope to fuck you didn't smuggle pork into a Muslim country up your arse.
So how would you do it?
Well, that's I question I never thought I'd be asked. And I have no idea how to answer it. I didn't revise.
You could hide it from the x-ray machine by wrapping it in baconfoil
They don't call us Longpork for nothing.
That's like a 15 minute flight.
Still enough time for a quick drink
Incorrect, they don't serve alcohol whilst the doors are open. Once doors are closed they are good to go. I've done 96 flights with Qatar Airways over the years and never not been served alcohol once in air during Ramadan.
Seems like I just got screwed then :/
That is actually nightmare inducing
Emirates did when I flew in them.. kinda odd.
A. Was it during Ramadan B. Was it in the Gulf? They served from the European part of the journey
1. Yes 2. Yes, the passenger next to me (Muslim) had to quickly swallow his tea as the sun had just set and we were landing in seconds, so certainly over Dubai.
Does Ramadan on a plane that chases sunset (eg flying west) get extended then? I’ve never thought about that before…
I think you can not fast if you are travelling but you need to make up the fast later.
You can but don't have to.
Could be the same as places where it never truly gets dark, they're allowed to follow Mecca time I believe
Yes they do. Source: me, who flew to and from abu dhabi during ramadan.
I came back from Spain once, ZERO bacon rolls. They didn’t restock
BRITS eat plane dry of BACON rolls
Plot twist: Plane was fully stocked
And folk say we, as a nation have nothing to be proud of.
Wade Boggs would be proud.
RIP
The man is *very much* alive!
I fucking knew some hero of a human would make this reference. Thank you, honestly and genuinely. You did Sunny and Wade proud.
These lads are national heroes 🫡
And possibly a Guinness record too.
We conquered the world built an empire and did pretty good in two world wars with chaps like these. Wind yr neck in.
I don’t see anything wrong in what these folk did. There’s no reports of arrests or violence. I’ve nothing to wind my neck in over. I’m not mocking the tourists. It’s typical British humour, a Brit wins say at tiddywinks and someone might say ‘let’s not hear about the British never accomplishing anything.’ It’s more mocking of those who make such statements about how the British have nothing to be proud of.
Sorry mate. Misread what you wrote.
No worries.
‘Why are you here?’ ‘Well I saw an advert, it said Drink Canada Dry, so I thought I’d give it a go’
And stupid americans think they can outdrinks brits. They can't even outdrink canadians.
In America if you drink 2 pints a night they consider you an alcoholic, here that makes you the designated driver.
If I turned up to a party with a 6 pack of beer in England I’d get asked “is that it? Are you feeling okay?” But in America that’s all they’ll have. And it’s light.
Only 6 cans? You on shift the next day then?
My 70 year old dad drank 4 US Marines under the table in Athens. Americans can't drink.
Like everything, it depends on the person. That said, most Poles can drink me under the table.
I got drinking vodka with a Polish grandmother at a wedding once. Never again. It wasn't a competition or showing off by anyone, she just demolished us all without trying.
I was on a flight from London to Rome and the plane was drunk dry. Turns out Ireland were playing Italy in the 6 nations the next day.
Friends and I was emptied a plane from Amsterdam to London, but honestly that just took us 3/4 beers per person. There just aren’t that many beers on such a flight, so it’s not that hard to empty it.
London to Amsterdam must be about 45 minutes. With ascent and descent time, the bar must be open for about 20 minutes.
That’s correct
Well that flight is like what, 50 minutes? They've probably only got 1 bog roll on the plane too.
Why is this news? The plane I was on recently ran out of ham and cheese sandwiches and pretty much all hot meals, yet let’s shame the brits for alcohol I guess.
I don’t think it was meant to shame anyone lol, just a lighthearted funny story.
In fairness to the passengers four hours is a punishingly long time to be deprived of access to a pub
If I was on a plane full of English and the steward/stewardess said the plane is dry I would see it as a accomplishment.
‘Once they’d cleaned out the mini bar, they started on the reserve fuel supply’
I flew to Mexico last month and it was out of beer after a couple of hours (I'd had two cans) then wine and there were just a few whiskeys left by the time we landed. BA from Gatwick took off approx 10am.
> He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed. Worth neither a click, nor a post, nor a thread. ...nor a comment, but I'm not a smart cookie.
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Was it enough to stave off the shakes at least?
I just had a malteser with all chocolate no honeycomb
r/BritishSuccess
The Emirates flight from Glasgow to Dubai has to hold double the amount of alcohol compared to other flights. Always found that funny. There is also 3 times the normal amount of immigration police when you get off...
I’m disgusted with my fellow countrymen and their mindset with binge drinking. They’ve really slowed down recently.
Harry potter was on the plane Any alcohol of the trolley dear? We'll take the lot
No doubt the same story for the 30 minute easyJet flight between Belfast and Glasgow
Speaking as air crew this headline is extremely misleading, while there are quite large nuggets of truth in there I do need to point out that the Sun express aircraft will have come in from Turkey first and not be recatered on the ground in the UK so the flight to Turkey has what is left in the bar from the outbound flight, therefore it is very easy for them to have ran out so soon on that flight...
Is this supposed to be a story about Brits abroad bad but in reality no stock
That's the spirit. Or, in this case, spirits and beer and wine.
Was once on a flight out of Chennai heading to Dubai, airplane full of Indian dudes heading out for work in Dubai, knowing they're about to spend god knows how long in an essentially dry country for them. It was fucking mayhem. Dudes hammering the call button to get the cabin crew to bring them more and more booze. Less than an hour in, completely dry. Flight attendant took pity on me and my colleague who just wanted some beers, got us a couple of cans each early on and said that's probably all we're gonna get.
Flew to Magaluf, all they had was 3 alkaselzer shit beers the yanks drink onboard so essentially went straight away. Absolutely rubbish none story.
When we got married we had an open bar in Spain at the ceremony. When they learned British people were coming they made sure to stock extra bottles.
He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed. On a "special flight" So............ I was allowed to get my own Tsingtao from the galley on a flight from China by the flight crew! I was drinking can for can with an Aussie but he needed to sleep after 6 hours. I was really polite and nice to the crew as they'd stop serving anybody but us 2 after about 3 hours in....... Could just be me because I did the £10 1st class upgrade on the London to Liverpool train and after asking for my 2nd free bottle of Guinness they brought another 2 with it!
Where do people get the money to drink this much at airline prices?
Work
Considering the imminent death of the NHS and the BBC, as I thought there was literally nothing left to feel patriotic about, this.
Should have got the raki out that would have solved that
Its funny because under this post there is a video from a clubhouse. A fellow guy drinks something with a British girl and the drink is so strong that the guy just passes out and falls on the floor while the girl keeps on dancing like she had water loool
"SunExpress’s German-American boss Max Kownatzki told trade publication TTG **that one special flight** operated by the Turkish airline for a group of Brits on a golfing break was drunk dry in the space of 25 minutes. He said every drop of beer and wine on board the plane, which departed a UK airport, was gone within half an hour. He didn’t say how many passengers were on the flight nor did he specify exactly how much alcohol they consumed." So not your average package holiday flight then. A private charter for a bunch of golfers who got rid of the beer and wine. Amateurs! What about the Bloody Marys, G&T chasers with ice and a slice, followed by "Irish" coffee. That's the proper way do drain a British flight dry.
So. from what we can read it was a group of people doing this. On a chartered flight. And so?
“Makes ya right prouhd soh it Das”. (Wipes away errant tear as he casually and without realising it, softly hums GSTQ to himself-he has nothing against Chaz, just prefers *Her Madge* God Rest her.) Bazza, Aged 63, Alcohol enthusiast, Fry up connoisseur, footy expert, Patriotic Patriot.
Ahhh, these are much people from the mother land.2
Well, you got yourself on this flight to Turkey, now what's the next step in your master plan? ...Smashing all the booze on this plane... Including the pre-mixed screwdrivers!
Once on a flight from London to Belgrade, a Serbian guy and I were the only two in business class and the trolley spent most of its time with us. We also ran out of beer.
I remember many years ago flying back from India. It wasn't direct and we stopped in Abu Dhabi and a load of oil workers got on who have been dry for their six week or whatever shifts.. After that if you asked for a beer they'd just give hand you six small beers at a time as that's what all the oil people wanted. That flight knew their market and didn't run out.
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This headline is supposed to make us feel bad. Most British people find this an accomplishment.
Sounds like the airline strategically stocked bare minimum alcohol to save themselves from the inevitable shit storm of trouble that was bound to happen. Good thinking