Originally Posted by USCTrojan83

My flight had 40 mins remaining, plus obviously initial decent hadn't been called yet, so I asked the FA for a quick soda as I'd slept through the previous hour. Mind you, I was one of two people in F. She told me it was "too close to landing" for a beverage, which is a complete lie - then proceeded to sit in the jump seat with a magazine and sip her Starbucks cup. Not quite the experience of five years ago.