I've speculated in the past that this would be coming. Now one airline is dipping its toe into the idea of limiting the number of drinks a passenger can be served because of "incidents".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayi...iers/28463201/

Haven't all US airlines always had the policy (I think it's an FAA rule) that flight attendants can't serve alcohol to a visibly intoxicated passenger?

Yes as do most airlines, but imposing a limit is different. Whilst some people may become intoxicated after two or three drinks (depending on alcoholic beverage) for others it takes a bit more. A strict limitation irrespective of impaired state is different kettle of fish.

H

must be an awful job to clean drunk throwups/vomits in the front due to overdrunk pax....

Some ruined it for all

Nobody needs more than three alcoholic drinks on a flight wholly within Europe.

removing behavior element makes it simpler

Limiting drinks by a fixed number on all intra-Europe flights, regardless of flight time seems a little insensitive.

Personally, I would obviously have problems downing this ration on the 45 min hop ARN-CPH, equivalent of LON-BRU.

Flying CPH-ATH for 3h - 3h10min, there might occasionally be more than one passenger finding that a pre-meal drink, a 18 cl bottle of wine and a small digestif is the absolute limit, on every occasion, might be the airline assuming parent guidance responsibility.

So, Big Brother no longer only watches you, he's also counting the drinks

In all countries I've visited, there normally is a rule against serving people beeing intoxicated. I would trust the CC to have the good judgement to decide, without having a cast-iron rule on numbers to obey.

...when you see the price of alcohol in Scandanavia, I'd be downing them left and right if they were part of my fare.

What are you qualifications to make such a broad statement?

Kurt

Nobody "needs" any alcoholic drinks on any flight. But what has that got to do with the OP?

I can envision some people trying to book unnecessary connections because of this rule.

Are FAs required to create a written record each time they serve a drink? Otherwise, how do they know whether some particular passenger has alread been served a total of three drinks, possibly by different FAs?

Great idea SAS!!

It will be nice if airlines had premium brand sparkling waters as a substitute for those of us that don't drink.

As far as drink limits, I don't think airlines are obligated to give unlimited drinks. I think the three was chosen because they needed some number to put in policy. What I think will happen in reality is that FAs start counting drinks after they see a passenger downing at least 2 in a hurry. So they can count at least 3 even if the passenger has down already 4 or 5 by that point. If they made 5 as a policy, then the average passenger would have drunk 6 or 7 by the time the FAs realize the passenger had at last 4 or 5.

It's their plane and the can serve how ever many drinks they want. Passengers can decide to fly them or not. However, anyone who would avoid SAS over a three drink limit on flights within Europe is probably someone the rest of us would be better off not flying with in the first place.

This.

I am thinking this change might make me MORE likely to book on SAS, even if not the lowest fare. I have no desire to be locked in a plane in-flight with anyone who feels the need for more alcohol than this in a relatively short period of time.