Also long gone are the days of Aer Lingus business class, where you were always given two bottles of whatever wine/champagne you requested[even on the short LHR-DUB route], accompanied by a cheery ''There you go!''
And a request for a third bottle was never a problem [saved on the mini-bar bill later!]
Not only business class! In 1994 my new wife and I flew on our wedding to our Irish honeymoon East Midlands to Dublin. The stewardess noticed some stray confetti in my wifes hair, and on finding out the occassion insisted on giving us two small bottles of champagne each - my wife wanted coffee (which she got later in the flight) - and bemoaning the fact she had no Waterford crystal on board! Slightly embarrasing on a 34 seat Saab 340
