Originally Posted by
chinatraderjmr
Can't you drink all the DOM or your favorite wines ar home or in restauraunts???? Is the kind of champagne an airline serves really a deciding factor?? I would bet anything that the kinds of liquor offered is ONLY a factor for people on award tkts. I fly EK 3-6 times a month and they serve DOM as well as Hennessy Paradis (which I believe is the most expensive bottle in the sky. It's quite interesting to see who is just as happy with XO back in the lounge and who asks them to walk a glass of Paradiis from the front of the plane to the back. I get a sense of who's flying w miles & who's paying cash. The passengers paying cash rarely if ever go thru the trouble of having the Paradis walked back to them. It's an airplane & while quality of food is understandably important on long haul flights, IMO people using miles make way to big a deal of what liquor or wines are served (unless it's total crap of course). Blue Label, DOM & Paradis are nice but totally unnecessary as a deciding factor of what airline I fly. I find that most of the people I know who normally fly F on paid tkts don't even give it a thought.
I understand your point but some people don't have an endless pool of points or cash to be able to fly premium cabins very often. So these first class flights are often an experience in which, as trivial as it may seem, the food and liquor selection are important. And if the point redemption amounts are the same for different first class cabins, then each airline's respective food/drink selection will be a huge deciding factor into which airline I book.
Again, it's all about personal perspective. If I was flying premium cabins multiple times a month, then I agree these things would seem trivial.