T5 - bring on board food and wine?
#16
Join Date: Jun 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold/ All the AMEX Plat things
Posts: 195
That's interesting. A couple of time I took some of the little bottles of sherry out of the T4S lounge and enjoyed them with some almonds on the A340 back to LHR. Never had any problems. Alas when they updated the lounge they got rid of the little bottles. And before this blows up I am not a serial lounge pilferer!
Every year when flying to Gran Canaria we fly via MAD. Not sure if they still serve those 200ml Mahou beers in the lounge but IB cabin crew never had a problem when we consumed them on the plane. They were always happy to take our empties!
#17
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold; FB Silver; SPG; IHG Gold
Posts: 2,963
If you’re worried about consuming your own alcohol on board any flight, just disguise it in a aluminium water flask or any kind of bottle. Myself and the other half sometimes take a few miniatures onboard with us and add them to a coffee or a soft drink. As for people questioning your ability to go without for a few hours, ignore them. You’re on holiday, enjoy it!
#18
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Newcastle UK
Posts: 1,114
I'd never ever say I've done that, however I do tend to purchase 7 up free from Boots airside 😉
#19
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: LDN / NY
Programs: BA GGL, Marriott Amb, Hyatt Glob
Posts: 534
I have however done this with a gin & tonic when leaving to get into an Uber as I’ll have a sophisticated glass bottle of fever tree or something of the like.
#20
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Surrey
Programs: BAEC - Gold
Posts: 876
Well after all that, we’ve arrived in Madrid having spent a grand total of Ł9 on a lovely bottle of screw top NZ Pinot noir red from world duty free and borrowed a couple of (cardboard!!) coffee cups from the Flounge. Coupled with a good fill-up first, it was a great trip. Plus we parked at T4 so none of the silly T4S train business.
#23
Join Date: Mar 2015
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 56
Wonderful to see some fun coming back onto FT.
There were times when it was all so doom and gloom. It’s been a tricky time.
The woods aren’t clear, but light is shining!
Im back to Belfast next week and the to Toronto in September . Hopefully, I won’t need my Pellegrino water bottle!
There were times when it was all so doom and gloom. It’s been a tricky time.
The woods aren’t clear, but light is shining!
Im back to Belfast next week and the to Toronto in September . Hopefully, I won’t need my Pellegrino water bottle!
#24
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,547
That's interesting. A couple of time I took some of the little bottles of sherry out of the T4S lounge and enjoyed them with some almonds on the A340 back to LHR. Never had any problems. Alas when they updated the lounge they got rid of the little bottles. And before this blows up I am not a serial lounge pilferer!
#25
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,168
BYOB is a tricky subject in my view. I've had some great flights, and great conversations, aided by a little booze taken from the duty free (an example that springs to mind is a couple of supremely cool Russian experimental physicists on a Baku-Tbilisi flight, where they explained their experiments as we shared a small bottle of Jägermeister) but, unfortunately, when it turns to Britain it always descends into chaos. I think I've written about it here, but I've come to the conclusion that duty free alcohol should either be banned or packaged in some way not to be openable, when flying out of Britain, after inspecting a 747 that had just arrived from Vegas. Parts of Club and Traveller were soaked in vomit, blood, some strange liquids and Doors 3 smelt of rancid urine (because somebody couldn't wait for the loo, apparently). The police had to arrest three people. And that's unfortunately quite common on routes such as LAS and a lot of Spain.