Flying first class is fun. You get a bigger, comfier seat, more legroom, better food, and a wide selection of adult beverages.
That fancy alcohol doesn’t come cheap, of course. When you’re at 35,000 feet, and your flight attendant is opening a bottle of Dom Perignon, Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame, Cristal, or my favorite, Moët & Chandon, you’re potentially looking at a couple of hundred dollars per bottle.
This leads one to wonder what happens to whatever champagne remains in the bottle by the time you land. They surely won’t hold it for the next flight. Are the flight attendants allowed to keep the leftovers as a perk of the job? Or…?
Yep, it’s the “Or…”
Unfortunately, the leftovers get poured down the drain.
Adriana Kinch is a flight attendant for Emirates, and she posted a very short, but kind of sad video about it on Instagram:
“At the end of every flight we pour away all the open bottles of champagne so it can’t be used for the next flight,” said Kinch.
Is that a sad trombone I hear?
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