What's your short haul champagne record?
Feb 25, 2024, 5:31 pm
#19
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sheffield
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In the days where I used to drink, I once had at least 6 small bottles on a flight back in 1A* from ARN. It was in those strange brown-seated 'suites' they used from Dubai and this was on a flight back from Stockholm. Such a surreal flight. Seat was bizarre. Very wide. Anyway, one crew kept slipping me bottles through the curtain. In the end I had to say 'o more' as it was such an incredible amount on a relatively short flight.
*1A. Thinking about it, I think those suites were 1 per row as my business partner was on the other side and I'm sure I had no-one sitting next to me! Must have been around 2016. Old plane BA had bought from another company. What happened to those planes?
*1A. Thinking about it, I think those suites were 1 per row as my business partner was on the other side and I'm sure I had no-one sitting next to me! Must have been around 2016. Old plane BA had bought from another company. What happened to those planes?
I believe some were eventually reconfigured, all now retired,
Feb 25, 2024, 7:46 pm
#21
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Doesn’t quite count as short haul but Air France La Premiere CDG-MEX. I was the only pax in cabin and had 5 of the 6 bottles of champagne onboard
Feb 25, 2024, 10:50 pm
#24
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Four mini bottles, equal to one full size bottle ITM to HND. It is a GC map distance of an entire 251 miles, making LHR AMS only 20 miles shorter. I thought that was a decent effort. In Europe it would be a full size bottle (AF) or 4 minis (SK in the good old days) CDG to CPH.
Feb 25, 2024, 11:40 pm
#26
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Feb 25, 2024, 11:44 pm
#27
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In AF F they would have proper bottles not the mini ones served on BA short haul. So you probably drank 5 glasses. And the glass is a small one so it probably amounts to just over half a bottle! And maybe after the second glass they were giving you the non- alcoholic version?
Feb 25, 2024, 11:51 pm
#28
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In AF F they would have proper bottles not the mini ones served on BA short haul. So you probably drank 5 glasses. And the glass is a small one so it probably amounts to just over half a bottle! And maybe after the second glass they were giving you the non- alcoholic version?
Feb 26, 2024, 12:06 am
#30
Join Date: Oct 2014
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They were in 1-2 configuration across the cabin. I used to call them the Jimmy Saville seats, but had to change that later...
