Has anyone every brought a gift for the flight crew on international flights? If so, what did you bring them?

Read through this thread first:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...mp;tid=1288831

Usually I give the pilot a new car -- preferably an Astin Martin. I think diamond bracelets are nice for the flight attendants. I really appreciate what they do.


Huh?????

Ralph Fiennes , actor , recently gave Qantas flight attendant Lisa Robertson on the flight from Darwin to Mumbai membership to the mile high club . It has been splashed all over the papers .She has been dismissed from her job for accepting gifts from passengers. Some would say it was a bit too generous of Ralph . I say vulgar and unnecessary .

$dollar bills$...they work everywhere.

Patrick, diamonds are so, so yesterday. Plus they're not PC. Sapphires will probably blend with their uniforms better.

What lovely tokens of appreciation, Patrick.

Diamonds go with everything.

In real life, certain flight attendants do receive gifts, generally from people who fly the same route 50 or 60 times with the same flight crew.

I am addicted to this board!

The things you see here!

I do agree with lawchick!!!! I have been crying with laughter over the 'how much should I tip the pilot' thread! To be read by everyone on a grey day (like it is here today) Really did me good!

Ivee

Yes. Quite a few years ago my father and I were trying to get on a flight from Kathmandu to Delhi and the Indian Airlines plane was booked. My father, in his inimitable way, chatted up the pilot and they made an arrangement. I sat in the cockpit and my father got some kind of a makeshift seat. The gift to the pilot was a bottle of Johnny Walker Black. (Imported alcohol was very scarce in India back then)

We became friendly with the pilot and his family and had a number of visits with them after that first flight..both in India and at my parent's home in the US. My parents attended his daughter's wedding in Delhi years later.