Can alcohol be brought on an airplane?
The duty-free shops at the airport are really well-stocked, you can find everything there, and although very often the prices are inflated, there [...]
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Duty-free shops at the airport are really fully stocked, you find everything there, and although very often the prices are inflated, there are some items that instead hide interesting deals. I'm talking about the spirits.
The airport is "international" territory or "free zone." which means that duty-free shops do not apply all the taxes of the home state, the name itself suggests: duty-free means "tax-free store" in Italian. Let's be clear, one does not find the business of life without the 22% of VAT, but still we can find some items at prices advantageous.
You can buy 1L bottles of gin, vodka or limoncello and take them on the plane even if the limit is from 100ml? Can we drink on the plane what we buy duty-free? How much alcohol can we buy for ourselves? Let's do some clarity about it.
On trips involving routes long, the temptation to take a bottle of wine on the plane and drain it to pass the time is a lot, but unfortunately can't be done. You can, however, carry alcohol on the plane bought duty-free, but with some limitations.
The liquid limit of 100ml applies before security checks, whatever we buy once we pass through security and get to the duty-free or small stores inside the airport can be taken on board, alcohol included. However, airports have a limitation on the alcoholic beverages they can sell to individual travelers: according to FAA regulations, we are around the 5 liters per passenger. The sale of all liquor exceeding the 70 degrees of percentage of alcohol because they are highly flammable and therefore dangerous To be transported by plane.
And if we have to carry out a stopover And eventually go through security checks again? Don't panic, alcohol will not be seized.
Shopkeepers ask always if we have to make a stopover, if the answer is yes then our bottles are carefully sealed in a plastic bag that clearly indicates they were purchased at the airport and therefore considered safe to carry. Beware of don't break the seal, the envelope will be carefully checked at security and a compromised seal would make us say goodbye To our alcohol.
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Once we have brought the alcohol on board, we can just carry it destination, we cannot drink it: it is prohibited by FAA regulations. According to these regulations, we can only drink what is served on board by flight attendants, why? This way the mischievous passenger is better controlled.
If we could all drink alcohol at will on the plane, it would really be a disaster... recently the cases of violence on board due to alcohol have increased, aided by the use of the mask and people frustrated by 2 years of restrictions. That is why some flight attendants had proposed limiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages on airplanes.
What do you think about it? Do you think it is right Put a limit on the amount of alcohol you can drink on an airplane To avoid violent incidents?
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