Can You Bring Your Own Alcohol on a Plane?

May 17, 2017

(Food&Wine) - Here are the rules you need to know about before attempting this stealth and brilliant feat.

As airlines charge fees for more and more services, most people will look to save a couple bucks wherever they can. And it turns out that one place passengers can save money is alcohol.

There’s a little loophole used by JetBlue that allows passengers to drink alcohol they’ve brought onboard the plane.

Technically, according to FAA regulations, passengers can bring alcohol onboard — they just can’t open it themselves.

FAA rules state that only “the certificate holder operating the airline” is allowed to open and serve alcoholic beverages on board. If a passenger wants a drink of their own alcohol on a JetBlue flight, they must ask a flight attendant to serve them.

 

Although it may seem like a minor technicality, it’s a pretty important one. Because of well-documented issues with intoxicated passengers on planes, it’s part of the flight attendant’s duties to assess each drinking passenger’s sobriety levels. A flight attendant can stop serving at any time — even if a passenger brought their own alcohol and has a full bottle left.


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