Can you bring alcohol onto your flight?
 

I am flying to Vegas this weekend with friends and we want to bring some pre-mixed martinis with us for pre-partying at our hotel. I had planned to mix them, then taking them in a tupperware drink container and carrying that on the plane with me. Is this specifically NOT allowed? Or will they not bat an eye?

Worst care, they'd make me throw it away, but I'd hate to lose my martinis before I had a chance to partake:)

I flew southwest recently to Vegas...they made me pour out the coffee in my thermos so my guess is that they will say the same to you. Also, on american airlines i heard another passenger inquire about byob on flights and the flight attendant answered that you could not do that anymore, so apparently at one time you could.

Aloohaaaa,
UCLA???
I really doubt that they'll let you thru with what is basically the Molotov Cocktail of alcohjlic bevs.

We travel with the little minis and then mix our own. All they did was check to see that the seals weren't broken.
Mrs Kal had an open bottle of water and they made her take a big swig before she went on to rule out any flammables.
Good luck!
Kal
ps..Alohhaaa bogie!

I believe it is against FAA regulations to carry alcohol with a broken seal in the fuselage.

Bummer! I had a feeling this might be the case....Guess I'll be taking a few (unopened) bottles with me....and I'll have to make sure they are empty before we come home ;)

Aloha Kal! Yes...UCLA...a very devoted student (went for both undergrad and grad) and fan :D Are you an alumnus?

I carried an unopened bottle of wine on Northwest flight last week. No problem. What about premixed drinks like the ones from TIGF Fridays?

No. I graduated from Psycotic State.

We used to hit the beautiful UCLA campus on many of our SoCal trips back in the early 70s.
Pauley Pav was this basketball playing fan's Mecca.
Then we saw "H.R. Haldeman's" name on the dedication plaque! Someone had scratched in "Wizard of Watergate".
Funny.

I've been known to "carry on" a 6 pack when flying. ;)

You could take a cab to your hotel and pick up the booze on the way at a store. Unless you were planning on drinking on the plane. I'd be careful ruining my tupperware with alcoholic beverages... the plastic will absorb the alcohol. That's why they don't recommend bleaching anything plastic you will want to eat/drink out of, because the plastic is porous and will absorb some of the liquid. But then again, you might not mind having the smell/taste of martinis in your tupperware...LOL

So it is ok to bring unopened alcohol? My friend is flying to Vancouver on Saturday and wants to bring her friend a bottle of Patron, since you can't get it in Canada. She was planning on putting it in her carry-on. Do you think she will have a problem?

I think that unopened bottles of liquor will NOT be a problem. I see people all the time boarding with cases of Napa/Sonoma wine they can't get back home. But if you board the plane clearly intoxicated, or proceed to get trashed, and cause even the barest whiff of a disturbance, you will get the book thrown at you.

A drunk Vietnam vet got pinched on a recent FLL/LAX flight (according to wire reports) for staggering into First Class to yell at Pamela Anderson for "not supporting the troops" (a position she has never uttered in public, by the way). Police were waiting for him at the gate.

I personally wouldn't risk it-- I'd land at LAS, get my rental car, and beeline it to the closest liquor store and play bartender with fresh supplies. Besides, no risk of spillage!

You can bring alcohol with an uncracked seal on the plane with you.

When I fly I carry two bottles of "water", the kind with the squirt tops. One is actually water, the other is vodka. The squirt top works well for mixing, just order OJ then squirt, squirt squirt! Since vodka looks identical to water, no one has ever noticed.

On an interisland flight in HI, brought opened bottle of tequila... no trouble. You can definitely take unopened bottles, especially since they are sold in every duty-free shop.

Put your martini in a big water bottle... ditch the tupperware.

Get a large bottle of Scope mouthwash. Empty it into something else, clean out the tast inside with boiling water. Pour your martinis into the Scope bottle. If using gin, use Bombay Sapphire, and you're all set. If using vodka, put a few drops of blue/green food coloring in. Throw it in a caryon with a tube of toothpaste and a bar of soap and go.

I'd like to assume all this booze is being brought on board for consumption after landing. Nowadays, flight crew have enough to deal with, without a bunch of "high-spirited" passengers making the flight tricky for them and everyone around them. Frankly, if you can't wait 'til you get on the ground to open or buy your alcohol, you deserve whatever trouble you might get from security, customs, or flight marshalls.

Thanks, cfc, my sentiments exactly. Especially after seeing two women who refused to put a vase of flowers in the overhead get thrown off a flight I was on! In today's climate, why mess with the already overtaxed flight crews?

Do you have to buy an extra ticket for your "uncracked seal" and would he have to sit next to the :(|) with the kielbassa he wants to use to tip the pilot? :-O

You can bring unopened liquor on the plane, but you cannot open it on the plane. FAA requires all alcohol consumed on the flight be purchased on the flight. However, if you carry unopened bottles onto the plane, leave them in your carryon, and carry them off unopened, you should have no problems with the airline [can't say how the hotel will feel about you bypassing their bar]

I thought sneaking booze on board was only a pass time for people boarding cruiseships! I had no idea everyone was boozing it up in the friendly skies. I've been known to down 3 or 4 cosmos before a flight myself ( I hate flying) but it sounds like lots of people are having a great time.
BTW,I think only the bottle is blue for Sapphire.

Correct, Sapphire is most definitely not blue... it's clear and delicious.

"Alcohol...has to be purchased on the flight"....the only FAA reg is that the alcohol has to be SERVED by a member of the crew(FA)....the booze is free in First and business....

I don't usually drink the whole bottle we purchase for drinks on short trips (stop laughing, Kal) and have had no problem taking what's left on the second leg of the journey. We did have an open bottle of wine one trip left over from a stay at a hotel airport the night before and outside of the security agent opening it, taking a whiff and letting everybody know what cheapo wine drinkers we were (just kidding) nothing was said.

I wrote a complaint letter to United after my last flight and they sent me a bunch of free drink coupons. I guess they figure you can't complain about their lousy service when you are loaded.

good grief cfc and Leona. We are on our way to a bachelorette party...give us a break....and NO it is not for ON the plane, it's for our room. And as for going to a liquor store in Vegas--have you ever tried to go to a liquor store on the strip? There really aren't any (even the new Walgreens on the strip doesn't carry booze!). There are a few places in the casinos themselves, but who wants to pay what they are asking for a bottle of vodka? And we are not renting a car, so we can't go off the strip very easily. (yes, we could cab, but I don't want to be on a scavenger hunt for a liquor store in a cab)

Actually.......if anyone knows a liquor store that is convenient to the south end of the strip--I'd actually appreciate it:) Otherwise...I'll be bringing some *unopened* bottles on board:)

Happy travels everyone!

ccolor...whatever you say, Cutie. :^o

Yes, you can bring alcohol on your flight; no, you can't bring your monkey on your flight.

Actually Jack, you can take your monkey on a plane if you are disabled and the monkey is a service animal.

http://www.delta.com/travel/trav_ser...erns/index.jsp

note to Heartburn - apparently alcohol absorbs tupperware too....worst drink i ever had was one mixed in tupperware a few hours prior; you know that taste...old rubber/plastic.

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I've flown with both opened and unopened bottles of liquor for years. I don't trust putting them in my checked baggage. I've never had a problem. In the last 3 months I've flown to Paris, France, St Louis, Missouri and twice to Houston, Texas. Never once was I asked to show them a bottle. I noticed a decline in them inspecting alcohol bottles about three years ago when they started the random checks with swabbing the bags and using a machine to check for chemicals. Before the machine, they'd ask to open the bottle to sniff it to make sure it was booze.

I do remember one time in the early 90's when I fly out of Key West. A 60-ish lady was working security. She wanted to make sure it was whiskey in the bottle. She had a little thimble on a chain around her neck, topped it off from my bottle, drank it and said, "yes, that's whiskey all right!" I figured with the way party-ers fly in and out of Key West she'd be snockered by lunch time. :-!

Kal - did you ask the Mrs. how to spell that? ;)

and one more time just for sh!ts and giggles :D...

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Flew from Indianapolis to Dallas on Monday morning. I noticed 4 letter "S" on my boarding pass. I've never noticed that before. As I showed my ID I was directed to Line 6. I didn't know what that meant.

As I stood in Line 6 I noticed everyone in front of me was getting the full search: shoes off and through x-ray machine, handed wanded for metal, my bags completely opened and searched and my bags were swiped with a pad that was put in an analyzer.

Two TSA agents went through my bag completely. Not one comment was made about the glass quart of whiskey that was opened and in my carry-on. They didn't even bother to open it to make sure it was whiskey.