Anyone ever drunk on an airplane?

Quazzie

I was talking to a few friends of mine who said they were travelling to OZ last year, and they were saying how it was free drinks on the plane the whole way there. Being Irish and right greedy bastids they jumped at the chance and drank all around them. They had a stopover (Singapore I think) and they said they were that drunk they can only remember bits of going through the airport to their connecting flights.

My immediate reaction is that I wouldn't drink at all in fear of getting drunk and missing my flight and being elft in Singapore and missing my connection flight.

I know Boardsies are a well travelled bunch so my question is, would you, or have you ever gotten drunk on an Airplane?

4zn76tysfajdxp

Oh dear.

Edit: I just realised what you meant by "pissed." No.

WithCheesePlease

Drank solid the whole way to the states when were were going on J1 years back. But we didn't get so blind drunk that we didn't remember. Might be showing my age here now but in fairness that would just be stupid! Time and place and all that... It's grand to have a few drinks, but it's a fairly confined place and you can't be shouting and roaring and trying to score with the one next to you like!...

lostexpectation

anyone ever drank urine on a plane?

Dardania

Never pissed, although certainly merry on a flight to Madrid with friends one year...

The previous year in Amsterdam airport, coming back, we emptied our pockets into an uber-joint and then took on the airport - 1 guy went blind, a second guy just kept walking him into people as we were checking in, for the laugh, the 3rd guy went off and bought about 10 hats while I ended up in a bookshop buying aload of newspapers & magazines...not surprisingly we were searched at security (the hats were a give-away) but oh no - no drugs on us;-)

cabrwab

i got pis*Ed flying to denmark once, there were 10 people on the plane so the airhostess was mad to give us free drink. Great fun!

Saint_Mel

Heading to Scotland for a match once ... was in CFJ's the night before and got home just in time to meet the taxi I had ordered to the airport for an early moring Ryanair flight!

Little or no recollection of the journey to the airport, the airport itself or even getting on the plane, just remember an air hostess trying to wake me and when I asked her where I was she said Glasgow!

SEPT 23 1989

i cannot fly unless im very drunk due to my fear of flying

Quazzie

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

i cannot fly unless im very drunk due to my fear of flying

BA is that you?

Zangetsu

I got trashed on a flight over to Scotland, 3 hours in the airport pub before getting on the plane and drinking a bottle of vodka with a mate in an hour. stumbled through Edinburgh trying to find a bus to Dundee...

Good times!

AnonoBoy

I'm normally drunk when I fly. Although apparently if you're the pilot it's frowned upon so Ryanair fired me.

Ron DMC

Was heading to Edinburgh for Hogmanay with the lads a few years back and we decided that seeing as our flight was at 8am we should just stay up the night before drinking. It was another mate's 21st that evening so needless to say we were generous enough with the nectar.

About 6am, we managed to find a taxi from Dun Laoghaire up to the aircoachin Stillorgan (no idea how). Anyway, a quick McDonald's (they were only serving breakfast so I didn't even eat it all), and then on to the plane.

As we were taxiing out I reckon I must've dozed off because next thing you know we were still taxiing but everyone started getting ready to hop off the plane. Didn't believe my mate when he said we were already there, shortest flight ever!!

Run_to_da_hills

Not too along after Lockerbie I took one of the last Pan Am flights before the company went bust, There was only about 100 passengers on the Boeing 747. The hostesses gave out unlimited drinks through the flight, I took advantage of it,

Turncoat

Drank about 6 cans on my 9 hr London - Delhi flight. But stopped and slept when I realised that I had to attend my friends marriage.

jim o doom

answer; yes.. and I nearly missed my flight! Although when I saw the thread I began thinking to myself "is there somewhere I haven't been drunk that I have been sober?".. hospital is the only place I can think of currently.

markesmith

Once on the way to the US in '99. Just finished my final exams, and had been drinking up to and including the flight. I remember I drank gin & juice (like the Snoop song) until it came out my ears.

Decided a cigarette was in order, so copped a couple drags in the jacks of the airplane (I know!). Stumbled back to my seat, a Virgin Airways male steward comes over:

Him: Sir, were you just smoking a cigarette in the toilet?
Me (indignant and inebriated): No, and I'm quite offended by the implication!
Him: Well, sir, we'll have to give you the benefit of the doubt on this occasion...
Me (warming to the theme): There's no benefit of doubt to give, I wasn't smoking, end of discussion!

Good times.

mkdon05

Got a flight to San Fransisco with 8 others 2 years ago. The booze was free (God bless BA) and we actually drank the plane dry. Had great craic with the airhostess' and eventually when I'd go up to them to get more drink they'd just say "well you know where it is, go ahead"
We were all mashed, and in bits for about 3 days afterwards

carlop

Did anyone else think that the ear-pain when you land was about 10 times worse when drunk? Went to the airport straight from a club in brussels and I don't know if it was tiredness or alcohol but I literally thought my head was going to explode.

Fratton Fred

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Heading to Scotland for a match once ... was in CFJ's the night before and got home just in time to meet the taxi I had ordered to the airport for an early moring Ryanair flight!

Little or no recollection of the journey to the airport, the airport itself or even getting on the plane, just remember an air hostess trying to wake me and when I asked her where I was she said Glasgow!

class

I was in gran canaria a few years back (The first holiday with my now wife) and we had a big night out in the irish centre on the last night. We went to some weird nightcluib afterwards.

As we got fell of the cab (It was daylight by this time), we saw a lady with a clipboard banging on the apartment door, turns out she was the budget travle rep wondering why we were'nt on board the coach...we could hardly ****ing stand.

We ended up getting a cab to the airport and there was a discussion with the despatchers as to whether or not we sould be let on the plane as we were so drunk

stovelid

I've become increasingly afraid of flying, so am usually tipsy going on most flights these days.

I once bumped into one of our company executives in the airport bar, early in the morning, putting back a double brandy by myself. She was, of course, only having a coffee.

AnonoBoy

carlop wrote: »

Did anyone else think that the ear-pain when you land was about 10 times worse when drunk?

Ear-pain? Bah - wuss!

shane86

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

I was talking to a few friends of mine who said they were travelling to OZ last year, and they were saying how it was free drinks on the plane the whole way there. Being Irish and right greedy bastids they jumped at the chance and drank all around them.

Drank pretty much the whole way as well bar maybe an hour or two of sleep. Good craic at the time but added with the jetlag and the lack of sleep it can really **** you mentally.

I had planned on giving myself a break in Frankfurt passing through, but a bottle of water was 5.20 whereas a can of beer was about a euro in the same shop. No contest.

Mr. Frost

Try it, it's fun!

I don't like flying all that much so it's good to get a bit tipsy (not hammered) and relax and have a laugh!

Mimikyu

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dSTAR

Flying sucks, plane food sucks, getting drunk in a pressurized cabin sucks.

I usually have one drink and a handful of benzos and wake up when I get there :pac:

grainne whale

I normally have a few glasses of wine before I fly, I'm now going to do one of those 'Fear of Flying' courses, just think of the money I'll save!!

ntlbell

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

I was talking to a few friends of mine who said they were travelling to OZ last year, and they were saying how it was free drinks on the plane the whole way there. Being Irish and right greedy bastids they jumped at the chance and drank all around them. They had a stopover (Singapore I think) and they said they were that drunk they can only remember bits of going through the airport to their connecting flights.

My immediate reaction is that I wouldn't drink at all in fear of getting drunk and missing my flight and being elft in Singapore and missing my connection flight.

I know Boardsies are a well travelled bunch so my question is, would you, or have you ever gotten drunk on an Airplane?

I thought been sober on a plane was a rare thing not been drunk..

wtf would you do for 12 hours?

sleep?

Sleipnir

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

i cannot fly unless im very drunk due to my fear of flying

Similarly, I cannot fly unless drunk due to my love of booze.

Always pissed on long haul flights and tipsy on short hauls.

On a flight to the States with 3 mates we got so pissed that the crew told us there was none left because we'd drunk it all. We knew they were holding back so stole a load of drink from their little cubby holes on our way back from the bathroom. It's surprisingly easy to do.
One of the lads got caught though but he's a lovable rogue who ended up with a load of booze and the hostess's number in New York.

When we were told to take our seats for landing two of us were running up and down the aisle making airplane noises and our arms out like wings. Everyone was pissing themselves laughing at us. Who needs an inflight movie where there's an on-board caberet?

Oh to be 28 again....

muboop1

yeh i was drunk on a trip from germany to singapore, from singapore to australia and australia to thailand,
oh and on the return from the states i got onto the plane locked...

the reasons were simple, from dublin was like 40 hours or some **** straight of flying, i got to point i cudnt sleep, so decided id get locked... may no of been best idea, but i eventually passed out and all made sense to my sleep deprived head... gotta love the free drink!

the was home from states, was there was a huge going away party hald for us by americans we made friends with!

Gummy Panda

ntlbell wrote: »

I thought been sober on a plane was a rare thing not been drunk..

wtf would you do for 12 hours?

sleep?

masturbate furiously under a blanket

ScumLord

Never really drunk but I had the mother of all comedowns after a 10 day session here and in the UK, flying back from Manchester on that little aer arann plane was horrible not only for me but all the other poor soles on that plane. My knuckles had started bleeding my skin was so dry, I looked like something out of a horror film.

Fratton Fred

Sleipnir wrote: »

When we were told to take our seats for landing two of us were running up and down the aisle making airplane noises and our arms out like wings. Everyone was pissing themselves laughing at us. Who needs an inflight movie where there's an on-board caberet?

Actually everyone was looking at you like you were idiots, its the same logic that makes me better looking and a better dancer when I'm hammered:D

Neamhshuntasach

I flew to Miami by myself on a BA flight during the summer and the drink was free. The air hostess kept plying me with bottles of wine and then i went onto whiskey. I had to try wash my face and sober up before going to US immigration. Totally forgot about them. I'm sure your man smelled the whiskey off me.

gaz wac

Dardania wrote: »

The previous year in Amsterdam airport, coming back, we emptied our pockets into an uber-joint and then took on the airport - 1 guy went blind, a second guy just kept walking him into people as we were checking in, for the laugh, the 3rd guy went off and bought about 10 hats while I ended up in a bookshop buying aload of newspapers & magazines...not surprisingly we were searched at security (the hats were a give-away) but oh no - no drugs on us;-)

+1

we didnt even get time to make a joint so we just swallowed it. All I remember is sitting at the window seat beside two people, dying to go toilet but afraid to even move...i was destroyed !! plane landed, and kinda woke up...the two people beside me were my best mates :eek:, we were all so smashed we didnt even notice !! ahh the annual Dam trip

Kiera

Yup. I cant sleep on planes so got pretty merry while on the plane to OZ. We were staying over in Singapore for a few days so missing the connecting flight wasn’t a problem.

ntlbell

Gummy Panda wrote: »

masturbate furiously under a blanket

hawt.

dSTAR

Kiera wrote: »

Yup. I cant sleep on planes so got pretty merry while on the plane to OZ. We were staying over in Singapore for a few days so missing the connecting flight wasn’t a problem.

I'd rather endure a direct flight as sh!tty as it is rather than stopping over in Singapore. I was there for a week on business and it was unbearable. Even at 3am it is still 30 degrees and humid as hell.

Heisenberg.

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Rowley Birkin QC

^^^^^

You left out a bit.

df1985

flew with BA to boston on my j1.4 of us on the plane, 2 girls and me and my best mate.werent sat together to me and my mate sat together.free drinks all the way to boston.drank wine,vodka,beer,the works. we tokk the piss completely, ringin the bell askin for more, walkin down to where the airhostesses were askin for more.eventually they came down with two glasses of water and told us it was for our own good, because going through immigration drunk wouldnt be easy....they were right.we staggered off the plane, the 2 girls goin mental at us, to be grilled by immigration as to why we were drunk, would this be how we'd be behaving in america etc.

Heisenberg.

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Professey Chin

lostexpectation wrote: »

anyone ever drank urine on a plane?

Mine? No
Someone elses?.....Mebbee

Fajitas!

Ha, coming back from the states last Easter, I was dreading the flight back...

Myself and a mate had 100 dollars each - In to the airport in the bar, and blew the lot on cocktails.

A drunken stumble onto the flight, and woke up in Dublin. Sorted.

Abi

grainne whale wrote: »

I normally have a few glasses of wine before I fly, I'm now going to do one of those 'Fear of Flying' courses, just think of the money I'll save!!

Im none too keen on flying either. Have enough to brave the plane, not enough to be escorted to the Starbucks.. But saving money for a 'fear of flying course? I think not.

Maybe I like[/] the misery. ;-)

CL32

Gummy Panda wrote: »

masturbate furiously under a blanket

Heh.

And aggressively shouting encouragement at yourself would top it off nicely.

I went on a drinking holiday with a few lads a few years back - all good lads with a great sense of humour. We were lucky enough to get a flight full of people half cut and had a great flight. Made some unlikley friends on the flight and bumped into people who recognised us all week and they would end up tagging along with us.

Got a free first class trip to New York years ago and took full advantage of the champers, wine and vodka on offer. Great craic altogether though the hangover was terrible.

Also got carried away on a flight to Cairo once (go KLM with the free booze!)
Landed there absolutely locked and faced with a very long, very slow moving queue through immigration with a very full bladder. The boyfriend was propping me up when I got to the desk.

Have been to Oz four times and wouldn't drink too much on that trip, it's hellish anyway and you'd be pissed, hungover, sobered up and pissed again before you get there.

Michellenman

Never been drunk on a plane although I've had the mother-of-all hangovers.
I was flying out to Amsterdam with 2 friends and we'd gotten our exam results the day before. Our flight was at 7am so we decided that we'd go out the night before and then come home, sleep, get up, all sorted. Got the 3am nite link after drinking faaaaaar too much. Home at four, up at five. 2 hour wait, 2 and a half hour flight, hour on a train half an hour on a bus and then 4 days in a tent. Messy.

Berty

A friend (loose term for this guy) was on a flight to Bangkok with two others lads who were asleep. He was ordering double whiskeys for all 3 of them telling her the other two were for them.

He drank around 10 doubles and they say every drink is doubled that high up.

He was touching the face of the guy in front of him between the seats and telling the stewards/ess's that he was going to smoke and there is nothing they could do about it. The other two just pulled up the blankets and pretended to be asleep.

He was taken to the jump seat in the galley and tied into it. He fell asleep and everyone using the toilet had to tip toe past him.


FVCKING KNOB!!

mp3guy

Berty wrote: »

He drank around 10 doubles and they say every drink is doubled that high up.

There's a lot of ignorance surrounding spirits, and as a result people always get ripped off with them.

1 standard spirit measure is 35.5ml, say at 37.5%, that's 1.3 units

A pint is 568ml, say of Miller at 4.7%, that's 2.6 units.

So, a double is the same as a single pint, they're not that amazing :rolleyes:

mp3guy

mp3guy wrote: »

There's a lot of ignorance surrounding spirits, and as a result people always get ripped off with them.

1 standard spirit measure is 35.5ml, say at 37.5%, that's 1.3 units

A pint is 568ml, say of Miller at 4.7%, that's 2.6 units.

So, a double is the same as a single pint, they're not that amazing :rolleyes:

The little spirit bottles you get on a plane contain a double measure. Add that to recycled air on a plane and you're fooked.

Anyone who's ever been drinking in a Vegas casino will testify that once you leave that super-charged oxyggenated area the alcohol hits you like a train.

BTW I know how to spell oxyggen but it's asterisked out on this forum so have to misspell it!

Berty

mp3guy wrote: »

There's a lot of ignorance surrounding spirits, and as a result people always get ripped off with them.

1 standard spirit measure is 35.5ml, say at 37.5%, that's 1.3 units

A pint is 568ml, say of Miller at 4.7%, that's 2.6 units.

So, a double is the same as a single pint, they're not that amazing :rolleyes:

Free drink isnt amazing.