Alcohol on flights ?

What I read on this subject a day or two ago said that what should be banned is people drinking duty free booze that they have bought at the airport before boarding. The idea was that any such purchases should be in a sealed bag. Not sure how this would be enforced.

I've been surprised on some flights by people asking for 2 or 3 of the bottles of wine or miniatures of spirits and being given them without demur by the stewards. Those were flights that included all refreshments.
Maybe people tend to 'tank up' more before shorter flights on the no frills airlines? Maybe it's more stag dos? (My phone auto corrected that to 'drag dos'! - what a thought!)
I don't know. Its pretty scary for all the other passengers when there are drunks on board.

I’ve never been on a flight where I’ve been offered enough alcohol to get even slightly tipsy.
I dislike flying and the thought of a glass of wine with lunch slightly offsets my anxiety.

I think the answer is to make it clear that anyone showing signs of inebriation won’t be allowed to board.

I recently travelled by train from Carlisle to Newcastle. Just ahead of me in the two-compartment train was a gang of young men, each of whom was openly carrying either a bottle of wine or a six-pack of beer.
Fortunately they appeared to be saving it for later.

I prefer not to have a glass of wine before I board but do enjoy just one with dinner on longhaul, then the lights go out and everyone tries to sleep. The cabin crew will come round with water or juice but not alcohol.

It's the pre-flight boozing that is the problem and airport staff need to be more pro-active with problem passengers.

In my experience, the worst culprits for drunken behaviour on short-haul flights (and often on trains) are young men going off for a stag 'do'.

I don't think alcohol should be banned on flights because of a few drunken idiots who get intoxicated before boarding - perhaps they should be breathalysed before boarding if they show signs of being drunk and banned from the flight. I've never been on a flight where alcohol is continuously available - or have I missed the trolley?

On longhaul it's nice to have a drink with dinner and I have never seen anyone drunk on a longhaul flight, even when we spent a 13+ hour flight with a load of rugby supporters coming home from enjoying the World Cup!

If the All Blacks can behave themselves on a long flight back to the UK then so can everyone else. I was testament to that.

The only conclusion that I can come up with is that those who get tanked up are clearly scared of flying and are trying to cover up their fear. It's their way of tolerating the journey but it's wrong as it puts others in danger and restrictions should be in force.

Personally I'd never come across any such behaviour on any of the long-haul flights I've been on neither to a destination nor back home and there were free drinks on these flights.

We were on a flight with a crowd of rugby players a coupel of years ago and they got drunker by the minute.The poor stewardess ahd a hard time keeping them under control .As luck would have it they were on the same flight back when we had really bad turbulence.They were reduced to crying whinging kids.Being sick and vowing never to fly again .It was pitiful to see.One of them apologised to me as we got off for their behaviour on the way out ,he said that many of them were terrified of flying and drinking was how they faced it. He said Eurostar was his method of travel from now on.....I did tell him getting a mild sedative from his doctor might be the way forward

Yes. Ban all airport bars and don't let people board who look like they'd been drinking. No need for the onboard drinks trolley to be banned but maybe it needn't come round so often?

I fail to see why the behaviour of drunken louts should stop me having a glass (or two) of lunch on a long haul flight. Anyone who is obviously intoxicated should be refused boarding.

Banned on flights in my opinion if anyone’s nervous they can have a glass of wine before and why should people be putting others in these situations People can surely manage a few hours without booze after all even hardened smokers have been trained not to have a fag r a vape on board

I don't know how you'd enforce that. Often it's people drinking at the airport beforehand that's the problem. Breathalyse people as they board?

I like a drink on the plane when we fly long haul though don't bother for domestic flights. It's a shame to prevent the many people who like a quiet drink from having one just because of a few louts.

We usually have to get an early morning flight when we go away and I must admit, I am agog at the people drinking beer and the like in the airport bar at 7:30am!

Restricted yes but not banned. I hate flying and a glass of wine helps me enormously. Although I did the 7 hour flight to New York without a drink. No one offered us one and I coped.