mini alcohol as carry on
May 6, 2009 | 2:04 am
#16
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That would be getting the previous FA into trouble. The liquor liscense on most carriers is for onboard consumption only.
May 6, 2009 | 4:43 am
#17
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It's fine to bring through security as long as the bottles fit in the Kippie bag and each bottle is 3.4oz or less.
Note that it's a violation federal law to consume alcohol on board unless a flight attendant serves it to you.* So, if you wanted to drink your self-provided alcohol, you would need to give the bottles to the FA so that she can pour the alcohol into cups for you. I know that several FTers do so regularly without a problem--though it tends to be in premium cabins where pax want to consume their duty-free purchases, not in coach where pax want to avoid paying $6 a drink.
I imagine it would be easier to find a cooperative FA when traveling up front.
(*In some countries, it's more strict. Under Canadian law, the aircraft operator must provide the alcohol, in addition to serving it. You cannot provide your own for on-board consumption.)
Note that it's a violation federal law to consume alcohol on board unless a flight attendant serves it to you.* So, if you wanted to drink your self-provided alcohol, you would need to give the bottles to the FA so that she can pour the alcohol into cups for you. I know that several FTers do so regularly without a problem--though it tends to be in premium cabins where pax want to consume their duty-free purchases, not in coach where pax want to avoid paying $6 a drink.
I imagine it would be easier to find a cooperative FA when traveling up front.
(*In some countries, it's more strict. Under Canadian law, the aircraft operator must provide the alcohol, in addition to serving it. You cannot provide your own for on-board consumption.)
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May 6, 2009 | 6:06 am
#18
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I've never had to wait to get duty-free till I left the plane- always picked it up in the jetway as I boarded. That's between US and Europe, India and Europe and India and US.
May 6, 2009 | 12:58 pm
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I am not sure I understand this. How can one bring a big bottle like the one purchased in duty free shops onto the plane? They usually only give them to you when you leave the plane. Or are you talking about mini-bottles bought at the duty free? Or has this changed recently?
Till
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As Athena53 notes, at many departure airports the local duty free staff will deliver your purchases directly to you on the jetbridge as you board the aircraft.
In other cases, you can take the bottle(s) with you from the airport duty free stores (for purchases that you make inside sterile departure holding areas that are beyond immigration checkpoints).
The obvious concern is that they don't want you to take the bottles and walk out of the airport, thereby "importing" the liquor without paying tax/duty. The whole premise of duty free is that you immediately export whatever it is, and do not consume or sell it inside the country.
So, at places like the USA where there is no exit immigration and no sterile departure holding areas, you cannot be in possession of the duty-free items until "there is no turning back," meaning, once you are physically walking onto the aircraft.
At stations like in South America where they have departure immigration controls, once you pass through you MUST continue to your flight, as there is no airport exit back into the country (unless you went back through arrivals/immigration/customs). As such, they might let you take your alcohol purchases from the store in a sealed bag.
In either case, you would be in possession of the alcohol once on board the aircraft.