danielonn

I agree with you BingBongBoy. Lets just say a minor took a bottle of wine for himself or herself and passed it around to a bunch of their friends? Or another passenger sees a bottle of Vodka and decides to take it back to their seats without asking that could potentially be a risk as they are serving themselves alcohol against the rules of flight attendants serving themselves.

Its nice to ask if its OK to have those crisps or a drink. I was brought up to ask politely so when I travel I always ask the Flight Attendant if its possible to have a "Double" closed mini bottle with a smile and 9 times out of 10 I get my request granted. If not I can fully understand and patiently wait for the next round.

The reason I ask for a "Double" or two bottles of wine serves two purposes. One so I can mix my own drink to my liking. And secondly so I don't have to ask again and again for another one when it would take the Flight Attendant some time to get to my row again.

We as customers should think of the person working. Flight Attendants are not slaves. They are there primarily for your safety and nowhere does it state they are obliged to serve you. I mean while the airline standards dictate what is being served a flight attendant has every right to cut you off from the alcohol etc.

simons1

The Emirates board is part of FT

HilFly

Except that the OP didn't take the crisps off the trolley. A member of the cabin crew was passing them out and the OP took one.

BingBongBoy

And neither the person you have quote, nor myself, who the person you have just quoted originally quoted, said that. It was a general point raised by something said, by someone else who had quoted someone else's quote in the quote chain.

So I apologise for detracting from the OPs plight.

Silver Fox

No, your mistake was ignoring the blog plug. That is the reason for the post here. By the way, your caps lock key seems to be sticking on sometimes.

callum9999

It constantly amazes me how this forum thinks it's perfectly valid to moan about sandwiches being wrapped in plastic yet it's beyond reasonable to complain that a flight attendant snapped at you unprovoked for no apparent reason and then refused to serve you twice.

If you wish to call them a liar then do so, don't dismiss dreadful service as perfectly fine.

BingBongBoy

But, what you seem to be completely ignoring is the fact that there are two sides to every story and we only have one side of it.

What every person needs to remember, from every angle, is that just because it is posted on an internet forum, supposedly, but probably not, populated by actual frequent fliers, does not make it true.

Peachy cobbler. Now lets all be friends and have a sandwich wrapped in plastic so we can moan about that too and dissect it to most minute of details and accuse each other of being a BA/Sandwich/Plastic/Wrapping/Filling/bread/Passenger/Customer/Crew/Boeing/Airbus* (*delete as appropriate) apologist.

callum9999

What you seem to be completely ignoring is where I clearly said if you don't believe them then feel free to suggest they're a liar...

henkybaby

The world is not black and white. I agree with BBB. Any complaint can be honest without being correct.

Chris_G

Asked for a beer after take off in RUH a few weeks ago in the full knowledge that BA does not serve (yes...!!) until the aircraft has physically left Saudi airspace.

BA are the only airline who fly out of RUH who apply this policy...and in fact BMI (absorbed by BA a few years ago) would serve immediately the wheels were up if you asked the cabin crew politely.

Reasons given are in case the aircraft has to divert...a risk of course that all operators face, but that doesn't stop Lufthansa for instance. I'm of the opinion that its a cost saving measure, since takeoff is about 1.30am and of course most people will fall asleep if they have to wait 2 hours for a beer.

Long and the short of it was that the CSD decided to have a go at me - and I mean a go. Ended up backed up against the wall opposite the J class larder on the main deck with him waggling his finger at me. He wouldn't stop, just kept going on at me - kept making the same point and then walking way, then turning around and having another go...

Decided to dead pan it out "have it your way then mate etc etc..." Checked with original stwardess to see if original request deserved this response...and then complained to the Captain who (unwisely) decided to have a break and spend a few mins in the UD kitchen...

Left it at that...Chris

paul4040

All that over one beer you knew you weren't going to get.

henkybaby

You're kidding, right ?

callum9999

Thank you so much for stating the blindingly obvious, but in THIS scenario it pretty much is. Either it happened or it didn't. I cannot comprehend how the story could have been accidentally altered from a scenario in which the cabin attendant acted completely reasonably.

Though regardless, it doesn't alter the point. Use flowery language if you wish, but that doesn't change my point that you can question the OPs story but cannot justify the service as described - which is exactly what they did.

IAN-UK

Another one-sided report of cabin-crew throwing a tizzy.

Couple in front of me in economy, separated by the aisle. By intent or mistake they'd switched seats.

Cue a pantomime pirouette from the crew member, the wife's special meal held aloft, eyes rolling heavenward - "you're supposed to ASK before you change seats".

Now, yes, perhaps it was water off a ducks back to the couple, and perhaps others in the cabin enjoyed the entertainment. But I felt uncomfortable, particularly as the eye-rolling was directed at me for sympathy, and because the hapless couple were Indian and I've no idea if they had the language skills to understand what sin they'd committed.

Not the sort of thing that ever gets reported: not something I'd have thought of again if I hadn't come across this thread. But not the best way to win hearts and minds.

BadgerBoi

To be fair it reads as though English is not the OP's first language.