Where?

The FA making a public announcement about the alcohol was in poor judgment on an international flight. I don’t want to hear such announcements on a domestic flight and but on an international flight it’s just in poor taste. Certain things are best left unsaid and done discreetly.

Now the FA may have opened up themselves to jail time if they served alcohol to underage military personnel if the only proof for the complementary alcohol was showing a military ID.

1. Continental is a publicly traded company.
2. Continental has a board of directors who would have approved these activities.
3. It is well within the purview of CO to offer free drinks, blankets, upgrades, steering wheels, or corvettes to anyone they chose.
4. If some of the same "OMNI Regular Whiners" who are now spewing their bile in this thread don't like it...
a. Sell your CO Stock.
b. Don't fly CO.

hey now, I am an American college student, and I wouldn't get caught dead in a che shirt

I believe military ID has DOB on it. So part of checking the military ID may have been to check age.

Way to skirt your incorrect post and not address the points at hand. It is not naive at all. Just because you want something to be so to fit an incorrect assertion, does not make it so. In fact the USA's power within NATO is probably at it's weakest point in history. The US is most displeased with the alliance at this time because it is NOT as you say it is.

Plenty of companies offer military discount, cop discounts etc. IHOP comes to mind. Even CO offers 5% discounts to Veterans advantage members.
Companies offer "classes" of people discounts and spiecal services all the time. It is good marketing. Car dealers give discounts to military members. Movie theatres give student discounts, etc etc. While some object to the fact this might not be CO policy but an individual FA, it matters not. CO has given its members discretion in such matters. Similar to how CO will board active duty military with elites at some stations, adn give PRes club access to military members on RR trips.
This is nothing new with CO. If one doesn't like said policy they are free to fly another carrier.

Ciao,
FH

Ergo by your logic those people should not fly CO at all, because CO flies military charters, flies a US flag, and flies normal troops in the course of their business. The booze makes no difference by your argument. Said "foreigners" should not fly any US carriers at all. Interesting...

Ciao,
FH

Every CO employee is empowered to do what they think is right/correct.
Should this become an issue I am sure we will be reading an internal memo to stop this type of customer service gesture.

This rule must not apply to assisting customers, just political statements, right?

Anyone who is willing to die for my freedom can for sure have a free drink on my flight.
Is the least I can do.

Yes. Certainly is a mark of disrespect to those who have paid money to fly CO and
1) do not believe in war as the solution to mankind's dispute
2) are not from military nations or nations that belief in imposing military might on others
3) those whose families have been wronged by military (of any nation) or
4) those from countries who consider the US military as aggresors.

True the US is a military state and most of the population passionately support the military, and the military's actions, and see or agree with violence, or threat of violence, as the solution to all international societies ills and disputes, but CO should not impose that by means of public announcement on its customers who do not hold such belief. I did not pay money to fly their airline to hear propaganda of any nature. If CO wants to only fly war supporting US citizens thats fine but if they wish to reach out to other international communities then they need to avoid political statements. Odd too this comes from an airline so politically correct that on christmas day (I have flown them twice) there is nothing suggsting the day is any different from any other - not even a happy christmas from FAs (I am not complaining though).

I agree they can do what they like with their drinks but please dont announce so to the rest of us.

Well to all those who support airlines demonstration of gratitude to military why not let CO comp all military personnel that fly their airline to infinite platinum status? Wouldnt that be a nice way to recognize their years of sacrifice for their country? Maybe then we would get a slightly different response here...

I will preface this post by stating that no personal offence is intended in the paragraph that follows, and that if anyone feels offended by my comments regarding this topic, they would do well to remember that several viewpoints exist on the subject, and perhaps that is precisely what your soldiers might think they are protecting when they do what they are being paid for...

I am sick and tired of having to endure all manner of praises for soldiers on board aircraft. It's a plane, not a Republican Party rally. In fact, I have reason to believe that some of the gentlemen in uniform seem about as thrilled as I am about all this thanking, gushing and unnecessary applause too. I mean so what if some kid sod's off to jolly ayrab land for a few weeks of target practice and sitting on his backside pointing guns at people, getting a sun tan and guzzling beer all day long.

I admit, my stance on the subject is about as popular as David Duke opening at the Apollo, but a few weeks ago, I did detect some rumblings at the gate when a couple of gentlemen did not seem too thrilled that a group of three soldiers were upgraded by a GA while these individuals presumably with top tier status were left in the rear of the aircraft. They were too nice to complain or even mention it directly to one another, but I knew what they were thinking.

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Amen, brother. An airline flight should be an airline flight, not a Sarah Palin rally. ^

Then by all means buy them one!