Liquor you buy at duty free. Can you open it on the plane?

[zinfamous]

Hmm didn't think about it from this angle....

yeah, that's the issue. But I haven't been on a plane any time in recent years where they didn't give a flip about people eating their own snacks and whatever food they bought at airport restaurants.

alcohol might be different though. don't know.

 

[zinfamous]

Not so much any more - most American airlines now charge for alcoholic drinks even on international flights in economy. But, if you fly something a little more upscale than Delta/United/American, yes, drinks are still free. For example, on Virgin Atlantic.

you also usually get a nice pair strolling up and down the isles accompanying those free drinks with Virgin....

 

[paulney]

you also usually get a nice pair strolling up and down the isles accompanying those free drinks with Virgin....

Damn right. Most US airlines have ugly old hags.

 

[iGas]

I'm not sure if you can open it on the plane, but I saw it done by a bunch of drunken Canadians on the way down to Costa Rica 3 months ago on Air Canada. My assumption is that the bottle must be consumed before the connection flight and/or security check (I saw water bottles was thrown out by security personnel at Vancouver/Victoria connection flight today from Hong Kong).

If I remember correctly alcohol isn't free for Air Canada economy seats to/from Vancouver/Costa Rica/Panama. Cathay Pacific provide free alcohol for economy seats to/from Vancouver/Hong Kong/Singapore/Jakarta (I saw it today when flying back to Vancouver).

 

[iGas]

Belize for a week of snoring with the tropical fishies. Traveling with my parents which is fail at my age but Meh a holiday is a holiday.

Don't knock it. Belize is very nice if I remember correctly (If you are into water sports, snorkeling and diving is awesome in Belize and the women look very good down there as well).

 

[Locut0s]

I am in Houston. The Horror, the horror...

 

[dawp]

Belize for a week of snoring with the tropical fishies. Traveling with my parents which is fail at my age but Meh a holiday is a holiday.

You may want to rethink this. Sleeping with the fishes is a euphemism for being killed and dumped at sea.

 

[Locut0s]

You may want to rethink this. Sleeping with the fishes is a euphemism for being killed and dumped at sea.

Lol yes I know. Stupid fucking autocorrect.

 

[Mark R]

It gets even crazier than this. I once flew through Amsterdam for work, going to Stockholm first, and then to London later. I was checking out a duty free shop, and wanted to buy something, when the store clerk asked me where I was going. I told him - Stockholm. He said: well, if you are going to Stockholm, you can only purchase on _this_ side of the store. _That_ side is only for people going to UK.

This could have happened in the past. Countries in the EU take a very different approach to goods brought in to a country from an EU country, to goods brought in from a non-EU country.

Broadly speaking, as you don't leave the jurisdiction of the EU, there is no way legally to buy 'duty free', if travelling between 2 countries. In return, however, there is no practical limit to the amount you may bring with you for personal use.

Sweden joined the EU quite late - in 1995. So prior to that time, completely different rules would have applied for a traveller in Europe, depending on destination. Travelling to Sweden would have entitled you to buy duty-free goods, but travelling to London would have required duty to be paid. I could see why a shop might have separate zones to deal with this type of confusion.

 

[Binarycow]

distraction is the key. Every time we flight I always ask my wife to wear the shortest skirt and lowest-cut blouse that she owns to show off her great asset. It distracts other males so much that usually we get treated very differently by people with authority that no one really looks closely at our passes, IDs, luggage,...One time the suitcase was 20+ lbs over the weight limit and the damn check-in boy just waved us through while looking at her with those glazed-over eyes of his.

 

[Krynj]

I like to stop at the duty free shop.

 

[D1gger]

You may want to rethink this. Sleeping with the fishes is a euphemism for being killed and dumped at sea.

Maybe that is what his parents have in mind, as a last resort to get Locut0s out of their basement.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Usually alcohol on international flights is free, so get tanked off of that.

This is what's confusing me in this thread... it's free... but I generally don't fly on American carriers. Beer and wine are certainly free on the Asian carriers.

I'm in the lounge at LAX right now. Looking over at the fridge, they're stocked on wine, Bud, Bud Light, Taiwan Beer, Corona and Heineken. Looking around the lounge, I see only one guy with a Corona.

I had some cranberry juice.

 

[Scouzer]

Last time I flew Thomas Cook they announced on the PA only alcohol purchased on board is permissible to drink.

 

[Oil]

I am in Houston. The Horror, the horror...

IAH is a fairly nice airport

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i cant recall how the liquor prices were in belize, but if you wanted some to bring back, its sometimes cheaper retail in the country than in the airport duty free. still need to declare it and observe the customs limits (and check it).

the rules for drinking inflight probably differ by airline, im sure they would rather sell their booze, but if you are discreet and don't cause any problems they probably won't care. esp international, they usually treat the customers better. though, we saw that mostly for europe and asia... middle east, mexico and carribbean not so much...

drink a lot of belikin!