can you bring your own food and drink on planes?

silverside

well say i'm flying aer lingus or ryanair ireland-UK.

can i bring along a few hang sandwiches, flask of tea, and hip flask of whiskey, and have a picnic on the plane?

daiixi

Yes.

BrianD

Yes and no. Most security checks will not allow you bring containers containing liquid into a secure area or onto a plane. For example, in Heathrow you can not bring your large coke from Burger King through the security check in case you pop something into it. Though I suppose your flask and hip flask will be x-ray'ed. I have seen people have the full picnics on board Ryan air flights.

Having said that, Ryan air flights are so short why bother? Or are we just conditioned to eat on flights?

murphaph

BrianD wrote:

Or are we just conditioned to eat on flights?

That's a weird aspect of human nature alright. It must be down to conditioning. It takes longer for a 39 to get from Blanch to town than a 737 to get from DUB to LHR but folks would never dream of packing a picnic basket for the bus into town........I'd only eat or dink before/on a long haul flight. Anything within Europe and I don't bother-all it does is make you need the lavatory and then your one of those annoying people who are up and down every 5 mins, getting in the way of the trolley, standing over people sitting near the front etc...

Charles Darwin

I've been told that the meal-on-flight thing was started in order to distract peoples attention in the early days of commercial flights. A lot of people were a bit worried about the idea of being up off the ground so a meal took their mind off the whole thing. Now that people are more used to flying, its not that important.

As Bob Monkhouse once put it "people don't have a fear of flying, they have a fear of...not flying":p

Victor

silverside wrote:

and hip flask of whiskey

Airlines tend not to like you bringing your own alcohol on a flight, because its harder for them to monitor how much people are drinking and how drunk they will get. This however tends to be more of a problem on medium / long haul flights.

Gandhi

Charles Darwin wrote:

I've been told that the meal-on-flight thing was started in order to distract peoples attention in the early days of commercial flights. A lot of people were a bit worried about the idea of being up off the ground so a meal took their mind off the whole thing. Now that people are more used to flying, its not that important.

It is still a good distraction from the tedium of a long flight, though. Even if you are not afraid of flying, sitting in the same cramped seat watching some stupid movie involving a talking dog or a "classic episode" of Cheers gets seriously boring after a while.

Putting your tray table down and negotiating the little square bowl of microwaved pasta, chicken, and god-knows-what, without knocking over the chocolate pudding seems like quite a mental challenge when you haven't moved an inch in four hours.

Zeppie

Victor wrote:

Airlines tend not to like you bringing your own alcohol on a flight, because its harder for them to monitor how much people are drinking and how drunk they will get. This however tends to be more of a problem on medium / long haul flights.

Agreed bout the alcohol, airlines dont tend to permit the consumption of your own alcohol on board flights.

Victor

Gandhi wrote:

Putting your tray table down and negotiating the little square bowl of microwaved pasta, chicken, and god-knows-what, without knocking over the chocolate pudding seems like quite a mental challenge when you haven't moved an inch in four hours.

The trick is to eat the dessert first :v:

GerardKeating

silverside wrote:

well say i'm flying aer lingus or ryanair ireland-UK.

can i bring along a few hang sandwiches, flask of tea, and hip flask of whiskey, and have a picnic on the plane?

Your main problem with the flash, would be getting it past the security screening.

BuffyBot

Bring sandwiches, pre-packed food etc and buy a bottle of soft drinks/water in the shop - you should have no problems with that way.

Sherlock

Zeppie wrote:

Agreed bout the alcohol, airlines dont tend to permit the consumption of your own alcohol on board flights.

What airlines?. We do it on every trip. You can buy a good bottle of wine in Italy, Spain, Cyprus etc for a few euro instead of paying 4 euro (or more!) for a small bottle on the plane. We just decant it into a couple of seven up bottles and bring it in hand luggage.

Victor

Pleb! Heathen!

Zeppie

Sherlock wrote:

What airlines?. We do it on every trip. You can buy a good bottle of wine in Italy, Spain, Cyprus etc for a few euro instead of paying 4 euro (or more!) for a small bottle on the plane. We just decant it into a couple of seven up bottles and bring it in hand luggage.

Well Aer Lingus for starters....You can check out the policy below yourself.


Thank you for your query regarding snacks and beverages. Please find below the applicable Aer Lingus policy which we hope will help answer any of your questions.

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Aer Lingus Customer Relations Team

AER LINGUS POLICY ON SNACKS/BEVERAGES/MEALS

SNACKS / BEVERAGES / MEALS

UK / EUROPE
Economy
Snacks and beverages may be purchased from the pay bar.

Premier:
Complimentary meals and beverages are provided

TRANSATLANTIC
Premier:
Complimentary meals and beverages are provided.

Economy:
Complimentary meals and soft drinks are provided. Spirits wines and beers may be purchased from the bar.

Heating of baby food is available

Passengers are prohibited from bringing their own alcohol on board for consumption. For safety purposes passengers are prohibited from carrying on hot beverages.

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Yoda

Ahhh. A friend and I were travelling from Newark to Portland Oregon. We went, of course, to Dean & DeLuca in Manhattan. We bought two kinds of caviar, some cheeses, and a bit of seabass. We relished our food together on our trip west... and how lucky we were to have thought ahead. Because the airline did offer a free meal on that flight... microwave cheeseburgers. *shudders*