"Drink the wine with passion, what is the point of fear, hell is in your control, heaven is in your home…" This couplet by Shakeel Badayuni has been written for the lovers of alcohol. For example, the bartenders don’t care where the gathering is, they just want a cup and a lot of liquor. You might be wondering why we are mentioning this lion here? Actually, the matter is something like this. Till now you must have heard the news of maximum sale of liquor in bars, but here the matter is about flying cots i.e. aeroplanes.
In a flight from Surat in Gujarat to Thailand, liquor was sold so much that all records were broken. Not only this, liquor lovers spilled so many drinks that the stock of liquor in the flight got exhausted, after which the airlines had to refuse to serve liquor to their passengers.
Record broken in debut flight itself
The matter is of Air India flight. Boeing 737 Max aircraft took off from Surat for Thailand on Friday. There were 175 passengers and six crew members in this four-hour flight. According to reports, 175 passengers in this flight consumed 15 liters of liquor, which cost around Rs 1.80 lakh. The matter reached such a stage that the stock of liquor on the flight ran out and the crew had to refuse to serve liquor. However, officials say that the liquor stock was not exhausted, as is being claimed on social media. Sources say the airline refused to serve more alcohol to passengers to prevent them from going out of control after selling its highest-ever in-flight alcohol.
Liquor is so expensive in flight
According to reports, liquor worth Rs 1.80 lakh was sold in just four hours of flight. In such a situation, you might have been surprised about the price of liquor, but it is not so at all. In Air India Express, 50 ml miniature of Sivas Regal is sold for Rs 600 and 330 ml of Red Label, Bacardi White Rum, Beefeater Gin and Bira Lager (beer) is sold for Rs 400. Officials say that this flight from Surat to Thailand saw more demand for Sivas Regal and Beira.
Not more than 2 pegs
Air India sources said that in recent times, many cases of passengers misbehaving with crew members have come to light. In such a situation, no passenger is served more than 2 pegs or 100 ml of liquor. Our crew can only serve more alcohol if a passenger appears to be in complete control after two drinks.
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