A Turkish airline chief described the “hedonistic” attitude of some British holidaymakers after a flight’s entire alcohol supply was drained in just 25 minutes.
SunExpress reportedly said that on a recent flight from a UK airport, passengers had consumed all of the beer and wine on sale within half an hour of a four-hour flight.
Max Kownatzki, the US-German chief executive of the expanding Turkish airline, said: “It’s more high-spend, more hedonistic [in how the British travel].
“We sold out of beer and wine 25 minutes after departure; we haven’t done that in any other market,” he told TTG about a recent flight that was aimed at golfers. It is understood that this accounted for all the alcohol on sale.
He did not say how many passengers were on board, where the flight had departed from and where it was going to – but the majority of departures are for coastal resort city Antalya. It was also not said how…