both my wife and i consume too much wine. we drink none even in F on domestic flights. stuff is terrible. we drink none if in a biz class lounge.

we are the top two drinkers in intl F and J flights,and F lounges. i can keep track of cabin consumption by watching the bottles drain. i have never seen an alcohol related confrontation between passengers, or passenger and crew.

i see a lot of drinking in the evening at bars frequented by travelers.

SAP, do you have any data to back up your position? as i say, i think you very,very wrong.

also you stated you are out 200 nights a year, how many flights is that? we only fly about 6 rt a year these days,but that is around 60K miles. in the old days,(over 40 years) we flew twice that much. saw no alky abuse to speak of.

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I drink more when I travel.

At home I might have a beer a month.

On the road I will have one on every flight.

Not hardly a problem.

I'm a regular wine drinker and, for me, traveling doesn't do much one way or the other. As already noted, it's sometimes hard to drink much if the wine sucks; reciprocally, it's absolutely 100% worth drinking more if the wine is really great. With my current travel patterns, sadly, the latter rarely occurs.

I think the bigger issues are diet, exercise and sleep. The logistics and responsibilities, some self-imposed, of traveling can become so all-consuming that it's sometimes hard to take care of even the basics. That's consequently my focus, personally.

I drink when flying to Las Vegas. One double Baileys and coffee. On any other domestic flights I do not drink. On my flights to Australia, 2 glasses of wine before bed. That's it.
I don't drink any more when traveling or getting to my destinations..........I don't drink any less either, but I know I don't drink any more. ;) ;)

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I thought of this thread while travelling ORD/SEA on Sunday. I happily had a single vodka & cranberry, while the guy next to me had seven white wines in the first ~90 minutes and then passed out.

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And if the aircraft had to make an emergency landing and an evacuation was ordered, would you have been glad to have had a 'passed out' passenger sitting next to you?

Passengers have a responsibility when flying to ensure that they don't become part of the problem in an emergency and drinking moderately is part of that responsibility.

The cabin crew need to control those who cannot control themselves.

Emergencies are very rare and evacuations even rarer. But they do happen.

Don't try to mix Ambien with alcohol. On this forum there were very interesting cases reported after such combination, including chewing extension cord...

that guy is a real wuss. those are 3oz glasses of 11% or12% wine, unless he brought his own glass, and that is not an outrageous amount of wine. also, the stuff was probably lousy wine. but it was free.

We should start a Ambien + Alcohol tread.

Everyone can pile on their experience (own or otherwise). I know I've seen quite a few good ones over the years.

Well, you start. I'm sorry - can't contribute anything to that topic because I do not drink and to not take Ambien or any other prescription/OTC drugs.

Do you guys think we should put forward a motion to create a forum (or sub forum) that houses threads such as this one (plus knee defender, window shades up/down, babies)?

Good grief! I hate the word teetotaler and I am one but the connotation is of a prune-faced spinster with a cameo waggling her finger. I've been sober 41 years through AA & never found it preachy at all, although some members can be fanatics. I don't give a rip about anyone's drinking. I keep alcohol in my house for guests & don't diagnose the person next to me on the plane as having a problem if they get tipsy. I have been badgered by people about having a drink & making a big deal out of it.

It's really nobody's business except the drinker & possibly their family. It can be difficult at first when they do quit drinking but that simmers down after a while & it doesn't bother them any longer if they remain sober. Is it a problem with frequent fliers? Sure it is. It's also a problem with pilots, F/A's, doctors, school teachers, garbage men & movie stars. Just pay attention to yourself & not anyone else.