Air France Crew Meals

[Jetlife707]

I've heard a rumour that Air France pilots have a glass of wine with their crew meals. Does anyone know if this is fact or fallacy?

[DeltaTango]

heard the same thing.....

[Sledge]

Standards old boy,Standards.

[Biscuit Chucker]

Do the crew get a 'non-standard' size wine glass to go with that meal?

[lostinBRU]

Was indeed true.......

Though I only speak of experience 10+ years ago.

As an Ascot driver staging through France we picked up Air France catering which included a small bottle of plonk (about 15ml)with the crew meals.

PAM (Prince Andrews Mum) wouldn't let us indulge though.......Vive La France!

[Basil]

As lostinBRU, refuelling in Istres le Tube, always had a glass of vin rouge avec dejuener, notably, on one occasion, on a route check.

[willoman]

Flew with a French airline in the early nineties - supplied with Air France crew food. The wine concession was withdrawn many years ago but the myth persists.

[Speedbird48]

Not only France. I flew in Belgium in the late '60's and there was wine with the meal.

[gravity victim]

Once, flying home from a small rocky island adjoining the Artic Circle, I watched 3 G&T's being expertly mixed at the trolley and taken into the flight deck, in full view of the pax..evoked mixed feelings of disapproval and reluctant admiration at the sheer chutzpah.....

[flyblue]

This is the silliest lie I have ever heard.
I work as a PNC (Cabin Crew) for AF, and I have never witnessed or heard anything like that.
Drinking alcohol is prohibited 8 hours before a flight.

Try to send us a Channel 4 troupe, maybe they will prove I'm saying the truth!

[Mooney]

Looks like flyblue has the answer!

Pity! I thought it sounded rather civilised...... even though we dont get crew meals

[Yak Hunt]

Journo Alert!!!!!!!!

Maybe a bit of Chevaux perhaps!!

[Boss Raptor]

Alitalia also used to issue wine with crew meals - just out of interest a glass of wine a day is still served to each prisoner in a french prison...

[critcaact]

Boss Raptor,
But it's wine from California!

[BEagle]

A stewardess I once knew told me that it was quite common on a certain charter airline for a miniature Drambuie or two to find its way into each of the pilot's fruit cocktails! But not, she said, if there were any checkers on board.

Well that'll be all right then....

[Clarence Oveur]

I flew in France 6-7 years ago and got AF crew meals, but no wine. Damn good stuff by the way, much better than what I have to put up with now.

I also understand that the French Army gets a sip once a day.

[KaptainKangaroo]

I'd be happy just to get a crew meal !

[greybeard]

I was also greatly privilaged to fly for AF in 1990/1 and the small bottles were nearly allways on the trays, sometimes they came into the cockpit. The best use for the little bottles of Lanson was to put a few in your overcoat pocket to keep it from flapping on cold walk-a-rounds.
The joys of lazy Sunday mornings when you checked your pockets!!!!!
It is never what people think you do, or what you actually do, it's what you get caught doing is the problem???

[Hussar 54]

Flew around France ( freight, nights ) for almost 7 years and never even heard this rumour...

On the other hand, we regularly joked amongst ourselves about how many the ATC'ers had had with their dinner whenever we were issued with corrected instructions...

And there was one guy in the Tower at a fairly large airfield on the Atlantic Coast who was notorious for his consumption of the odd 'petit blanc' at 30 minute intervals throughout the night....seems that he was the only guy who would work the night shift, so got away with it for years.

On the other hand, this IS France we are discussing...

Prost !

[flyblue]

I have a feeling that this thread is getting slightly xenophobic...
You got the answer firsthand. Enough with the "I've heard..."

I have worked with airlines and crews of different nationalities. Do you REALLY want to know who are the real fishes in the industry?