Originally Posted by
oliver2002
Remember SK is just one fuel price hike away from bankruptcy [...] The pre-boarding drinks are taxed and not duty free, so SK is serving 5€ glasses of bubbly there
Seems like they've been writing black digits for a while now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandin...usiness_trends
And with the Norwegian alcohol prices you'd only be allowed to look at the bottle for 5 Euro.
Originally Posted by
wazow
I often missed the ability to charge the drink "to-my-seat" in the same style as it is customary to charge "to-your-room" in hotels. Then I just would needed to sign a slip of paper from the FA.
I'll bet that, within one day, someone will fraud on that. If you go to the toilet, I'll pick your seat, order a bottle of champagne, sign with your seat number and move back to my seat (or to a random empty seat if the load is not 100%) and enjoy my free booze there. You won't know until you receive a bill after landing, when I'll be long gone.
The 'I' in this case is of course fully hypothetical, as I'm perfectly able to buy my own drinks and I don't drink booze on 30.000+ft.
Originally Posted by
fassy
For me it would be okay if alcohol on all airlines in all service classes are banned permanently. I also enjoy a good wine or drink during the C meal service or a good honest beer after a long day of work flying back home - but I have seen too many people who get boozed up in the lounge, barely make it to their seats and continue to drink like they are sitting in a bar.
Usually the FA should keep an eye on intoxicated passengers but to my experience they don't and just hand out another whisky or wine. Espacially in LH economy to the US I have seen it a lot of times that some larger groups (usualy groups of young men) get drunk pretty bad and nobody cares. Even more fun are OpUps into C when people like this think they now need to try every single drink they get offered, getting loud and annoying.
Personaly I do not enjoy sitting close to this guys. I hate even sitting in a train or bus next to a guy who smells like a bum living on cheap booze and behaves like an idiot. On a train or bus at least I usually have the option to move to some other seat - pretty difficult on a airplane and also the ride is probably not 2 hours but at least 8.
Not to think about saftey, like in an emergency...
Anyway, I know probably 99% of all travelers do not share this opinion and enjoy getting served alcohol on flights. So be it
I always wanted to say this: I'm the 1%!
Anyway, I must be your neighbor on a lot of flights as my experiences are very similar. I have nothing to add here.
Anyway, I wouldn't miss the alcohol, really. I hardly take any alcohol myself on long haul, for a few reasons. I can't imagine that selling beer at 'reasonable' prices would stop anyone from buying, nor will it stop incidental travelers (especially in Scandinavia) from choosing SK. It may scare off a few frequent flyers who really enjoy some booze. Remember that the best known alternative here in Norway is DY, who even ask about 1000NOK just for a checked in bag, a meal and a drink on a return flight with their long haul product, so 30 NOK for a can of beer is survivable. Plus that Scandinavians aren't used to cheap, let alone free alcohol.
I don't think it'd stop many American customers either, as for example *A partner UA has the same practice for what I know (and at even higher prices)...