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How Much Alcohol do you Drink in Business/First?

Old Jan 9, 2019, 9:20 pm
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I tend to drink very little, if anything, on long haul. I am always conscious that work awaits on my arrival and so my focus is on avoiding jet lag. There are exceptions, if travelling with family I might have a few drinks after takeoff, 3 or 4 but that is usually about it. Being drunk is not something I like, and so avoid consuming too much.

The only time I will enjoy a few drinks in the CCR is while waiting for my connecting flight home to MAN, especially if I bump in to one (or more) of the CCR old timers.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 9:21 pm
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For a morning flight I’d have maybe 2 or 3 glasses of champagne in the lounge. If travelling zclub Europe bottle or two of champagne and if the flight goes past 10am a G&T. An exception to this was an Edinburgh 8.40am departure where the person in front ordered a G&T so I thought why not.

I tend not have have spirits in the lounge before 11am.

On a lunch shorthaul a G&T before the meal, champagne and G&T with meal, and a couple of G&T s after. If travelling in ET would be a few champagnes and a couple of G&Ts in the loungeans maybe 2 or 3 g&ts from BOB.

Longhaul would be a couple of champagnes in the lounge and one on boarding, a couple of G&Ts before dinner, a glass or 2 of wine with meal, baileys with coffee and a few G&Ts for the rest of the flight.

Never want to have too too much in the lounge to be denied boarding or on board to have issues at immigration...
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 9:22 pm
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Guess Im a heavy drinker...Ill usually do 4 drinks on a 2 hour short haul, 6-8 on a transcon. Long-haul I lose track.

Always doubles to avoid bothering the crew so much.

Will usually do 2-4 in the lounge pre-departure as well.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 9:44 pm
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 9:46 pm
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It might be a generational thing, Im a millennial, but I rarely drink when flying, if ever.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 9:48 pm
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Originally Posted by Yachtman
It might be a generational thing, Im a millennial, but I rarely drink when flying, if ever.
Im late 20s and drink buckets.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 10:02 pm
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None as I am always driving at the other end on both work flights and family vacation flights. On the odd occasion I have had maybe 1 beer but this is rare.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 10:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Colnic2011
None as I am always driving at the other end on both work flights and family vacation flights. On the odd occasion I have had maybe 1 beer but this is rare.
I never drive after a long haul flight, even avoiding alcohol altogether and a enjoying a decent sleep I still find I am not rested enough or as alert as I would wish to be for driving.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 10:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK


I never drive after a long haul flight, even avoiding alcohol altogether and a enjoying a decent sleep I still find I am not rested enough or as alert as I would wish to be for driving.
On work flights I usually have a 3 hour drive at the other end, Luckily this is Short haul
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 11:00 pm
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Normally I will have 3 Glasses of Champagne in the Lounge and 2 Beers and occasionally a Gin but really depends on time mainly.

If I'm flying CE I'll normally have 1 champagne and 1 beer plus lots of water and tea.

On Long Haul I'm very conscious that waking up with a hangover isn't fun but sometimes I can have 7/8 alcoholic drinks on an 8-10 hour flight!
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 11:10 pm
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Originally Posted by KARFA
Have managed 4 of the 187ml bottles of champagne a few times last year on LBA-LHR which I thought was a decent achievement. My usual is probably more like 2.
And I thought I was being efficient going through a full sized bottle from CDG to CPH on AF. I supposed they still served in the holding patterns over LHR?
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 11:30 pm
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Originally Posted by noFODplease
My usual routine for leisure flights in F/J:

In the lounge:
Three glasses of champagne before lunch
Two glasses of wine with lunch
A cocktail before coffee and dessert

On board:
Two glasses of boarding champagne
A gin and tonic after take off
3 glasses of wine with lunch/dinner
A glass of dessert wine
A digestif

Then an ibuprofen and as much water as they will give me!
We must be brothers, though I would likely add "take a long nap" after the digestif.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 11:35 pm
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Today two short hauls. A double on first flight. 2 doubles on the second flight. Then a two hour drive just now.
Last time I was LGW to MCO, two glasses of wine in lounge. Two more on board and then slept the rest of the way home.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 11:37 pm
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Oh dear. I fear that an historically accurate answer would out me as a total dero, so I shall merely say that my last longhaul - to the east coast - involved two glasses of wine in GF, a pdb of champagne, two gin and tonics before lunch , three glasses of wine with it, and a champagne before landing. This I thought was very sensible and moderate and at no point did I feel drunk, let alone hungover. I did once manage to get to JNB in F fueled by nothing but fizzy water and Night Nurse but that was the sole exception.

Now, I think I need a bloody mary before I go to the gym.
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Old Jan 9, 2019, 11:49 pm
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Typical short haul
3 pints before flight
1 G&T miniature on board

Typical long haul with lounge access
before boarding
4 G&T miniatures
4 330ml cans of Heineken
on board
3 G&T miniatures
and then sleep
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