Who only drinks Champagne when in a BA lounge or aircraft?
Apr 4, 2019, 12:50 pm
#106
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When my travelling companion and I fly into T5 we go to Galleries N and order a glass of champas. If there is still breakfast, I get a bowl of oatmeal to enjoy with the champas. Otherwise I have whatever is on offer.BUT, with her I always have a champas. She has learned to enjoy it too, no matter when she flies into LHR ^
Apr 4, 2019, 12:55 pm
#107
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Balham - Gateway to The South
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I thought I was a complete chav about wine and particularly Champagne but it turns out I’m not.
Although I am completely ignorant about names etc I seem to like ‘nice’ champagne- I do only drink it onboard but couldn’t even drink a whole glass of the CW offering as it was really not good.
My current favourite drink will never darken the BA universe as it is a Polish Pilsner
Although I am completely ignorant about names etc I seem to like ‘nice’ champagne- I do only drink it onboard but couldn’t even drink a whole glass of the CW offering as it was really not good.
My current favourite drink will never darken the BA universe as it is a Polish Pilsner
Apr 4, 2019, 2:06 pm
#108
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I interpreted it as the latter.
If (1) then, no, I prefer G&T
If (2) then, no, I drink champagne at home too sometimes!
Apr 4, 2019, 3:21 pm
#109
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On BA F I used to just drink LPGS. Maybe a couple of glasses of scotch if I needed knocking out.
However I recently flew a couple of EK F legs and came off the Dom sharpish after seeing the wine list. Not to mention to 40yr old Ports and Hennessy Paradis...
However I recently flew a couple of EK F legs and came off the Dom sharpish after seeing the wine list. Not to mention to 40yr old Ports and Hennessy Paradis...
Apr 4, 2019, 5:08 pm
#110
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Apr 4, 2019, 5:12 pm
#111
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Dom is perfect distraction chaff for the magpies, while you order another glass of Mouton!
Apr 4, 2019, 6:08 pm
#112
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern Ireland
Programs: BA Silver, A3
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It still astounds me when I read of someone drinking 4 g&ts followed by 4 champagnes even before they board. Even when it's on tap I would consider that way over what I could be bothered to drink. Maybe I am the exception?
On my last flight LHR to DXB I refused the third glass, even though I love the stuff!
On my last flight LHR to DXB I refused the third glass, even though I love the stuff!
Apr 4, 2019, 6:20 pm
#114
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I'm certainly not a big drinker even when it's there for the taking....never have been. Coffee is a different story.
Apr 5, 2019, 12:30 am
#115
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This thread has been around some while but when I saw it again, I was unsure if the OP meant whether people here drink Champagne only when they’re aboard a BA aircraft, or whether they drink nothing but Champagne aboard a BA aircraft. I drink it anywhere. Fortunately, I am not cursed with a big label mentality and actually prefer wines from small producers (recoltants producteurs). Since I long came to the conclusion that for all the talk, most people have no idea what they’re drinking, that ultimately the best is what you enjoy. The myth that if it’s expensive it must be good is exactly that an illusion of clever marketing and a form of status symbolism. How common I am used to be a secret shared by my husband and the dustman. Now I am safe despatching Him Indoors to the recycle bin knowing that no ne can espy that I drink Champagne which few outside France have ever heard.
Apr 5, 2019, 12:57 am
#116
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This thread has been around some while but when I saw it again, I was unsure if the OP meant whether people here drink Champagne only when they’re aboard a BA aircraft, or whether they drink nothing but Champagne aboard a BA aircraft. I drink it anywhere. Fortunately, I am not cursed with a big label mentality and actually prefer wines from small producers (recoltants producteurs). Since I long came to the conclusion that for all the talk, most people have no idea what they’re drinking, that ultimately the best is what you enjoy. The myth that if it’s expensive it must be good is exactly that an illusion of clever marketing and a form of status symbolism. How common I am used to be a secret shared by my husband and the dustman. Now I am safe despatching Him Indoors to the recycle bin knowing that no ne can espy that I drink Champagne which few outside France have ever heard.
Apr 5, 2019, 1:12 am
#117
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: London UK
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“I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty”
Madame Lily Bollinger
House of Bollinger Champagne
I’ve got my first First coming up in a fortnight so I’m looking forward to trying the LPGS and seeing what all this fuss is about...
Madame Lily Bollinger
House of Bollinger Champagne
I’ve got my first First coming up in a fortnight so I’m looking forward to trying the LPGS and seeing what all this fuss is about...
Apr 5, 2019, 2:00 am
#119
Join Date: Oct 2017
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I don't usually drink champagne or fizz, except on aircrafts and when someone else pops a bottle for a meal. I usually prefer to drink wine with a meal, or have a good whisky or beer on its own. As BA's offering falls a bit flat for both, champagne works for me.
Apr 5, 2019, 5:58 am
#120
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Not limiting myself to only drinking champagne in BA lounges and aircrafts. I've had champers in all OW partners lounges/planes, but for S7 and LA, with whom I haven't had the pleasure yet. On second thought, the RJ lounge in AMM did not have any 