No more champagne - we’d have to open another bottle
Dec 10, 2018, 7:48 am
#61
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However, they still get bums on seats!
Dec 10, 2018, 7:51 am
#62
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Wow, I would have been tempted to say "so you haven't run out then, have you?!" I have read the thread all the way through and I know there is talk of champagne for the ground and champagne for up in the air, but as a casual reader of this forum it always seems like BA are telling customers "no, sorry...".
However, they still get bums on seats!
However, they still get bums on seats!
Ex-LON we can serve as much champagne as we like on the ground but it comes from the bars that we also need during the flight so stocks should be conserved to ensure there’s enough to go around for the entirety of the flight.
Dec 10, 2018, 8:04 am
#63
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That's true and I'm far from an expert on flight catering logistics and laws etc and I know we're all different. I wouldn't mind a quick reason given in the explanation from the cabin crew but then others wouldn't care I guess so it's difficult to balance/judge.
Dec 10, 2018, 12:41 pm
#64
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In this case, the crew may have actually have ‘run out’. From outstations, only limited supplies of champagne are available for use prior to takeoff because they have been duty paid. We will have more, but they cannot be access until we’re in the air. So when the crew member says they’ve ‘run out’ they mean they’ve run out of the duty paid champagne.
Ex-LON we can serve as much champagne as we like on the ground but it comes from the bars that we also need during the flight so stocks should be conserved to ensure there’s enough to go around for the entirety of the flight.
Dec 10, 2018, 4:02 pm
#66
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I for one have never seen this in my entire career, not once, oh no
Dec 10, 2018, 4:59 pm
#67
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Judging by the amount of times I have been offered flat, devoid of any life champagne in BA CW, I very much doubt they don't save opened bottles sometimes. Staff have admitted that the champagne offered had not been freshly opened on several flights.
Dec 10, 2018, 5:13 pm
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Dec 10, 2018, 5:23 pm
#69
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I think you will find your flat champagne comes from a bottle that was opened post takeoff, and then left opened for several hours, not from the pre takeoff bottles.
Dec 10, 2018, 5:38 pm
#71
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There was a thread not so long ago about staff re-pouring unused champagne glasses back in the bottle on a QR flight.
I think you will find your flat champagne comes from a bottle that was opened post takeoff, and then left opened for several hours, not from the pre takeoff bottles.
Dec 10, 2018, 6:20 pm
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Dec 10, 2018, 6:54 pm
#74
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In this case, the crew may have actually have ‘run out’. From outstations, only limited supplies of champagne are available for use prior to takeoff because they have been duty paid. We will have more, but they cannot be access until we’re in the air. So when the crew member says they’ve ‘run out’ they mean they’ve run out of the duty paid champagne.
Dec 10, 2018, 11:26 pm
#75
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Thats like 2x the amount in my last one. I wonder how low BA can go and still say you are getting a glass of champagne. Does 10% count? 5% haha.