Flying Delta first class can be a disadvantage when serving alcoholic beverages. You never know what type of person is going to be in first class. It could be a full blown alcoholic that has violent tendencies. Knowing you can get the free alcoholic beverages will make some people want to drink. What happens when someone sits next to them and makes them mad? What happens when they have been drinking on the plane and come home and threaten someone or hit them? Do you sue Delta because the servers have given them alcohol? I have flown on many Delta flights and have seen the servers rush through serving drinks and not paying the attention they need to in order to know if someone is drunk on a plane.
People do not take into consideration there are young children, teenagers, and others on a plane who do not drink and do not want to sit beside someone who does, especially an alcoholic with violent tendencies. If something were to happen on a plane then that person would not be able to help the person beside them if they were drunk from the servers giving them alcohol on the plane. This also makes it a dangerous situation for others on board.
Lately I have read where people are becoming hostile on some planes. When you have alcohol in some cases, some people can become violent and people can be hurt. Passengers sometimes get hit when someone who is intoxicated has a fight on a plane. Alcohol will make it worse because it can bring out extreme anger or violence in a person.
Sometimes when someone is drinking in a bar and they board a plane, that one hour or more flight helps them to sober up. Servers on these planes need to start looking at some first class passengers because they may be sitting there waiting on that drink. When sitting in first class you have several people who are drinking at times and the servers are asking would you like a drink which means non-alcoholic along with alcoholic drinks. Someone from Alcoholics Anonymous: it would be hard for them to be in first class knowing all alcoholic drinks are free. What kind of discounts or amenities should they receive since Delta is catering to alcohol with “free” alcoholic beverages? Delta should consider a first class in the front of the plane for non drinkers and put unruly or those who want to indulge the free drinks that are first class in the back of the plane so they are not so close to the pilot and a possible danger to your flight. As the old saying goes, “Party in the back of the bus”, why not party in the back of the plane away from others who just want to get to where they are going safely.
Political and covid masking on planes is another cause when people are drinking. This causes some to get angry with the people next to them and adds fuel to the fire.
My last flight I took, the guy next to me probably would not have been able to help himself or others, if something were to happen on the plane. This was in the main cabin. He did not buy a drink on the plane but had been in the bar before boarding. If he had been in the first class he would have been really bad off since he was that way when he boarded the plane. The flight attendant would have served him not knowing he had too much to drink and was three sheets in the wind.
Another way to help passengers on a plane where alcohol is served would be to limit the amount a person buys in a time frame when flying and not continue to serve someone over and over again.
Delta is wanting a no fly list because of alcohol and other related incidents. Delta wants the Dept. of Transportation to have a list which would be longer than it currently is to list people who have disrupted flights and taxpayers are going to be the ones paying for it and maintaining the list. I do not think we need to be the ones who have to pay for something Delta or other airlines could solve on their own.
Some will read this and get mad and some will agree with what I have said. Some that have to have that drink may need to take a look at themselves. They may be an abuser and not realize it. I do think not everyone who takes a drink is an alcoholic. But you do have to consider the others on the plane and what they might do to you on the flight if they have had too much and you do not know it. I am sure this has happened on other carriers besides Delta, but this is what I have observed on several flights.
Diana Renee M
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