Acceptable amount to steal from the Galleries Lounge
Dec 23, 2023, 1:01 am
#616
Join Date: Apr 2022
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What is it about that HEL flight? Every time I take it it seems to be basically a flying pub.
Dec 23, 2023, 1:08 am
#617
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The T3 lounge crawl is great! I did it last year with a good friend who is as fond of a few bevvies as I am. He also happened to have a gold card which got us into the better lounges. We turned up hours early and started with half a dozen civilised pints in the QF lounge and then had lunch and a few Tsingtaos (at least I think they were Tsingtaos) at CX. After that we bypassed AA (somehow I've never actually been into that lounge) and moved on to BA for the real carnage. We just installed ourselves on the sofas and got into the free pour bubbly. I think we probably drank more between us than our flights cost! After god knows how long in there totally lost track of time and very nearly missed our flight.
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Actually, 2 drinks in the GF as there was a pop-up cocktail bar (maybe 10 years ago).
And probably more than 2 in the CCR.
Followed by an F flight to LAS, and a few more drinks on arrival at the Cosmopoliton.
Up at 7 the following morning fresh as a daisy for a massive breakfast and the drive to Los Angeles.
Dec 23, 2023, 4:18 pm
#621
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Dec 27, 2023, 9:33 am
#622
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This afternoon in GF, a gentleman put three cans of brews of brewdog in his backpack (not very subtly). When challenged by one of the staff, he returned one to the fridge - then was told to drink the others up or put them back too - which he did.
I’ve seen far more “liberated” from the lounge during other visits. I don’t know whether this particular chap was unlucky or that consumption “in the lounge only” is being more strictly enforced these days. Certainly stopped me from acquiring a packet of crisps!
I’ve seen far more “liberated” from the lounge during other visits. I don’t know whether this particular chap was unlucky or that consumption “in the lounge only” is being more strictly enforced these days. Certainly stopped me from acquiring a packet of crisps!
Dec 27, 2023, 12:13 pm
#623
Join Date: Apr 2022
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This afternoon in GF, a gentleman put three cans of brews of brewdog in his backpack (not very subtly). When challenged by one of the staff, he returned one to the fridge - then was told to drink the others up or put them back too - which he did.
I’ve seen far more “liberated” from the lounge during other visits. I don’t know whether this particular chap was unlucky or that consumption “in the lounge only” is being more strictly enforced these days. Certainly stopped me from acquiring a packet of crisps!
I’ve seen far more “liberated” from the lounge during other visits. I don’t know whether this particular chap was unlucky or that consumption “in the lounge only” is being more strictly enforced these days. Certainly stopped me from acquiring a packet of crisps!
Dec 27, 2023, 12:31 pm
#624
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At the end of November I was in Gatwick Club lounge at 6 am and watched a gentlemen collect a succession of glasses of sparking wine. Curious I then realised he was fairly subtly filling a lemonade bottle up in his backpack plus a good collection of packets of crisps. Clearly preparing for a short hop somewhere! Will have been noisy to sit next too though.
Dec 27, 2023, 3:35 pm
#625
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This afternoon in GF, a gentleman put three cans of brews of brewdog in his backpack (not very subtly). When challenged by one of the staff, he returned one to the fridge - then was told to drink the others up or put them back too - which he did.
I’ve seen far more “liberated” from the lounge during other visits. I don’t know whether this particular chap was unlucky or that consumption “in the lounge only” is being more strictly enforced these days. Certainly stopped me from acquiring a packet of crisps!
I’ve seen far more “liberated” from the lounge during other visits. I don’t know whether this particular chap was unlucky or that consumption “in the lounge only” is being more strictly enforced these days. Certainly stopped me from acquiring a packet of crisps!
Dec 27, 2023, 4:28 pm
#626
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Dec 27, 2023, 4:37 pm
#627
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Yeah and of course I meant drinking your own alcohol on planes, not just taking it - as that would kill the duty free industry...
It does seem googling to be only a FAA regulation, though apparently it applies to US airlines flying anywhere. So don't crack open that can of Brewdog you stole from the Galleries lounge on an AA flight out of Heathrow.
It does seem googling to be only a FAA regulation, though apparently it applies to US airlines flying anywhere. So don't crack open that can of Brewdog you stole from the Galleries lounge on an AA flight out of Heathrow.
Dec 27, 2023, 6:22 pm
#628
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At the end of November I was in Gatwick Club lounge at 6 am and watched a gentlemen collect a succession of glasses of sparking wine. Curious I then realised he was fairly subtly filling a lemonade bottle up in his backpack plus a good collection of packets of crisps. Clearly preparing for a short hop somewhere! Will have been noisy to sit next too though.
Dec 27, 2023, 11:37 pm
#629
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Dec 27, 2023, 11:50 pm
#630
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OK
I won’t assume that everywhere - CX for instance won’t let you drink your own booze, because they want to keep tabs on how much you’ve had.
I sat near a couple of Japanese travellers who (rather over-enthusiastically in my view) brought six cans of mixers aboard.
Obviously the FA saw the stash and asked them not to drink it, promising to serve them alcohol in the pre-meal drink and during the meal.
I won’t assume that everywhere - CX for instance won’t let you drink your own booze, because they want to keep tabs on how much you’ve had.
I sat near a couple of Japanese travellers who (rather over-enthusiastically in my view) brought six cans of mixers aboard.
Obviously the FA saw the stash and asked them not to drink it, promising to serve them alcohol in the pre-meal drink and during the meal.