Newsstand - How does your favourite airline open its wines these days?

Since 9.11 and enhanced security restrictions on certain items, corkscrews have not been permitted on aircraft. At least when carried by passengers or anyone else passing through the normal channels.

This posed a major problem for some airlines once flights resumed: How to open those wine bottles in flight? Some stopped wine service altogether for a couple of days, then started boarding the bottles which had been opened in catering, and loaded with their corks reinserted.

The other day, I noticed UA has installed large fixed corkscrews in the main galley of its 777 and 747 fleet. These are contraptions similar to those found in many restaurants.

Then on Sunday, I noticed the AC crew members actually opening their bottles with the normal type of sommelier corkscrew. [Didn't notice if it was the type that has the small knife to cut the capsule.]

How does your regular carrier handle wine opening now?

Oh, the usual way. A pop top. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

FA´s couldn´t get the twist off to work so one used her teeth. Same way we do at home. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif


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[This message has been edited by fastflyer (edited 02-20-2002).]

On DL business elite on Monday 2/18 (SAN-ATL), the FA used a corkscrew with wings to open all of the bottles of wine.

I believe that these are OK because unlike some waiters' keys, there are no knives for foil removal in the wing-type corkscrew. (I assume they have a foil cutter in the galley as well).

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fastflyer:
On DL business elite on Monday 2/18 (SAN-ATL), the FA used a corkscrew with wings to open all of the bottles of wine.

I believe that these are OK because unlike some waiters' keys, there are no knives for foil removal in the wing-type corkscrew. (I assume they have a foil cutter in the galley as well).</font>

Really? I was under the impression that DL was serving screw-top wines. huh... learn something new... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

They tasted like screw-top wines. At least the two reds did: a Pays d'Oc and a California Merlot. I had never heard of either vineyard.

Only partly kidding about the screw-top quality issue. I have heard that many high-end vineyards are considering corq or screw-tops to avoid rot from the cork.

fastflyer, those sound like the same wines United has in Economy. Must be a limited selection of screw-top minis out there!

Having fun here, but still don't know why this is in "In The News: Miles and Points."

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I've seen weapon-quality corkscrews in the AA first class galleys.

In coach on DL:

WHAT wine?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fastflyer:
...I believe that these are OK because unlike some waiters' keys, there are no knives for foil removal in the wing-type corkscrew. (I assume they have a foil cutter in the galley as well).</font>

Any type of cork screw would be infinitely more dangerouse than the toenail clippers that were confiscated by security last week. Now my toenails look like straight out of American Werewolf in London. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

On my AA flt 268 last week SJC-BOS I actually asked how they got it. The friendly FA told me that the catering company provided one!