Cledaybuck

I would consider 2.5 hours in a RJ a lot less torture than a connection in LGA or JFK.

FlyerBeek

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either. I'm with you, unless it's a mimosa or bloody mary on the weekend, I typically don't imbibe on morning flights. But as long as folks are behaving, I see absolutely noting wrong with it. For example, in Japan they turn on the beer machines when the lounges open in the morning. It's not uncommon for me to see someone responsibly enjoying a draft beer at 7am - and even though that's nothing I would ever enjoy at that hour (and I love beer), I see absolutely nothing wrong it.

-FlyerBeek

Geordie405

A friend and I drank Virgin Trains out of Stella on a WCML trip from Euston to Glasgow many years ago. We'd drank solidly all the way north and asked for a couple more as the train was passing Carstairs. This was in First Class so everything was complimentary. There weren't any on the trolley so the bert suggested I ask for a couple at the buffet. None there either. Apparently they'd restocked the buffet at Preston but we'd demolished that too.

Bringing the subject back to planes, we'd normally manage a PDB plus a couple more without any difficulty on LAS - LAX / PHX. Never been cut off by AA. CX tried to, once, on LAX - HKG when my wife and I were in PE. The FA "suggested" that we might want to slow down a little as alcohol affects people more at altitude and if we weren't used to it then she'd have to limit how much she served. I politely "suggested" that she look at the passenger manifest and she'd see that it wasn't exactly our first rodeo. I was OWE and my wife OWS at the time. Let's just say that our glasses were never left unfilled and we had extremely attentive service for the remainder of the flight.

ChurnieEls

Was the FA young by any chance? Whilst I've never been cut off, I have had a couple of the younger ones get uneasy giving me a 3rd/4th Bailey's, which I assume is down to them thinking they're handing me 40% ABV mini's when its really 17% ABV. They older FAs tend to know the deal in that respect.

clbish

I think it's possible it's an Envoy policy. We had a similar experience also on Envoy.

HarryHolden68

It's always evening somewhere in the world!

nineworldseries

I would respectfully disagree with lie-flat J seats from LGA-MIA-JFK

Normally yes, as the CMH-NYC legs are also in 175s.

upinsmoke

Maybe they have a UTI? The vodka cranberry is medicine!

F16wannabe

I'm 45 and I'd say the FA was around my age. Miami based crew. I've actually found the young FAs tend to serve me better. I've managed 4 drinks on an Envoy flight from ORD-DSM served by a FA that couldn't have been over 25. I didn't have to ask for any of them, they were all offered. One of them was a PDB so it was obviously pre Covid. She even served the 4th one in a plastic glass so as she said "I could keep it throughout the entire descent".

Spanish

Agreed. I see many order the Bloody Mary, but alcohol makes me sleepy and I do not consume alcohol unless it's an evening flight.

Cledaybuck

To each his own, but there isn't an airplane seat in the world that would make me change a 2hr 45min non stop flight to a 6 hour journey that connected in one of the least on time airports in the country.

GlobalMatt

Not even if the pilot let you sit up front on the flight deck on both flights and drink unlimited alcohol?

Cledaybuck

Getting drunk while sitting on the flight deck seems like a horrible idea to me.

GlobalMatt

I only agree with this if connecting through LaGuardia or JFK.

CLT

Indeed.

A couple months ago I was flying to a friend's wedding in LA on a Friday night. The F cabin on the DCA-LAX flight was particularly light and no one else seemed to be drinking. I had a particularly bad work week, so I was looking forward to the trip. Anyways, we were just barely over St. Louis when I assumed I had finished an entire bottle of wine because the FA serving F approached me and asked if I wanted him to "open another bottle". I declined, and he almost seemed upset by my refusal.