Refused Drink Service on Qantas

[clifford]

Sorry to hear you experienced this.

As others have said, I wouldn’t dwell on it too much. Could be a variety of things; perhaps you were profiled as someone who might cause trouble or be unable to handle much more, or could even be as simple as the FA made a mistake but once cut off they couldn’t take the decision back.

Have never been cut off myself and one particularly fond travel memory is an EK F flight where the Dom just kept flowing, but there have been instances where I wish a fellow passenger had been cut off! One in particular was a SQ SYD-SIN flight in Y where a passenger on his way to Cape Town had way too many wines and towards the end of the flight hit the little cup holder it was sitting in and I ended up with a full cup of red all over my shirt! FAs helped as much as they could but I had to listen to his “New World Order” rants for the remainder of the journey and then continue on looking (and smelling) like a drunk myself all the way to CMB! A complaint was duly made and a reasonably expensive apology hamper arrived at my door a few weeks later.

That's interesting.

Many years ago I was flying EK in Y from DXB to SIN (I think) in a middle row seat (just lucky I guess) and my seat neighbour (a lovely British older man) did seem to like the odd red wine. I was also drinking red (miini bottles of course), but at a moderate rate. My neighbor though did have a taste for it, and kept ordering me a bottle when he ordered one for himself. I didn't want to offend, so grudgingly went along with it. He was good company and it did go down reasonably well, but I was a bit the worse for wear when we got to our destination. The FA's though, didn't bat an eyelid when asked for another round.

Wouldn't happen on Qantas in a million years.