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British passengers on Turkey flight drink the plane dry in under half an hour

www.independent.co.uk British passengers on Turkey flight finish all booze on plane in under half an hour

The passengers were described as ‘hedonistic’ by the airline

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Me and the boys went to Japan once and were ordering gin tonics. They gradually became stronger and stronger until they told us that they run out of tonic water.

By then we were already drunk and very loud. Must have been quite bad being on that plane and wanting to catch up on some sleep.

Sorry for that.
- Jin tonics?
  
  He he OK I changed it to gin ^^
The plane probably had a low stock of alcohol. The drinks trolley usually goes really slowly down the aisle so all it might have taken was a dozen or so passengers ordering a couple of cans each and then they're sold out.
The Gang Beats Boggs.
- R.I.P. Wade Boggs.
  
  (Had to double-check his wiki to make sure this reference is still safe to make.)
  
  Had to double-check his wiki to make sure this reference is still safe to make.
  
  Did you think he might have come back from the dead? :p
  
  Boss Hogg is still very much alive (he’s actually not).
The Lads Beat Boggs
Time to bring back the Soviet aircraft designs with tappable ethanol reservoirs
- They still do in Poland at least. I heard a story from an airman about getting a ridiculous alotment of it for barely any flight hours. It was used as antifreeze for windshields. And then they "sprayed it a lot, because it's like budgets, you don't use it all, you lose it". And when saying "sprayed it" he did a motion of chugging a bottle of vodka.
Fucking animals.

Have you seen the price of booze on a flight? You get fucked up at the nearest Spoons to the airport like everyone else.
This is basically just an advert, innit
So they had both drinks that were on the plane?
Turkish Airways dances all the way to the bank
I’ll bet the only reason this ended up a news story is because of one of those Brits who writes for the travel section was on the flight.
Why can you even order alcohol on a commercial flight?

Edit: I don't really know why I'm getting downvoted, it's a genuine question. Smoking on planes was banned in the 90s, so why is drinking still allowed? It arguably affects people around you just as much.
- To answer your edit, because second hand drinking isn't a thing
  
  Isn't it? Considering the number of people who get drunk and belligerent on planes and end up assaulting people...
- Commercially, oftentimes, goods and services are exchanged for money.
- For what it's worth, smoking was probably banned because of the fire risk and how easily it annoys people nearby. Alcohol is much more contained and mostly affects the person who directly consumes it.
  
  Though I agree, considering how high the safety standards are in aviation, having people on board that are under the influence of drugs seems like something that should be banned.
  
  Lol with this logic you could ban people from planes. I dont think alcohol is that bad. And if they serve so much alcohol people get drunk than thats another problem. Im not the best person to be talking about this because i dont drink and i dont care if people drink.
- Cuz they're sitting for hours, why not lol
  
  Because it somehow seems like a huge safety hazard to have a bunch of drunk people doing drunk people stuff in a plane
- How does it arguably affect people around younjust as much? Have you ever been scond hand drunk or caught second hand liver failure?
  
  Not everyone is a loud drunk, I get a couple whiskeys in me on a flight while I read my book relax and fall asleep.
  
  I am hesitant to be negative but like mind your business, you have every right to complain when it impacts you.
- Why not?
- Have you never flown?

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