Another brilliant flight attendant
 

Einstein of the week award winner.

Flight Attendant Charged With Stealing Mini Liquor Bottles - ABC News

...embarrassing!!! maybe I should stop asking for water, I'm sure random bag searches are around the corner!!!

A very long time ago, we had a F/A who took his own booze to work and charged the airline rate. He never showed any sales on any of his flights and that raised some suspicion (going to the Bahamas, Key West and back!). He got greedy and started charging for Coke's and someone complained which is when he got caught.

$1 each? Not a great businesswomen, this one.

What a dumbass!

At least she wasn't greedy...

I see it on my commutes all the time. Just last week the FA in first filled up a sick-sack with a bunch of minis and jammed it in her bag.

Yeah it's not just flight attendants, and it is not uncommon.

Gotta get the Capt liquored up on the overnight!

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For personal consumption only...

Those minis sell for $1.50 in Crystal City's liquor store ($$$), hard to get much more than that for them elsewhere, what would you suggest she charge?

Seriously! Let's go a lot deeper into this..

I think some FA's just sell the company's liquor and still keep the cash and not reporting the sale.

Had one years ago do this. She'd refill the minis w/ booze at home, pretend to be breaking the seal as she gave it to the passenger, and pocket the dough. Company was big on liquor sales and got suspicious when she never turned in a liquor sales report or showed no sales on it. Put a ghost rider on her flight, boom, busted and fired.

Then there's the other side...

Back in the late 1970s, had a non-rev accuse a flight attendant of stealing liquor minis from the 1st class galley. He reported it to me and I passed it on to the captain.

He, the passenger, saw something he thought was theft. The F/A in question did take some minis from first class to sell in coach because they ran out of what they needed.

The captain quickly got to the bottom of it then told the passenger to go ******* himself. We never heard anything else about it.

Right...I was addressing the person I quoted who I assumed that's what he was referring to.

Is it wrong? Heck yeah! Does it happen often? Heck yeah, again!

Now, what this person did in the article is a whole new level of dumb. How they didn't think someone would catch on and MAYBE have an issue with them selling stolen minis on craigslist (or whatever) is beyond me.

That's why most airlines only take plastic for in-cabin sales.

That and people (especially vacationers) spend more using credit cards than they do with cash.

It would be nice if all of them did. I commute on American Eagle operated flights but can't take advantage of my Amex $200/year statement credit on in-flight purchases because they don't take plastic.