[ggolden]

She was carrying a 50 lb bag and her carry on by herself. hard to do sober. i probably would be a little unsteady also!

Originally Posted by stevicus

Back in my day, the legal drinking age was 19. I made it just in time before they raised it to 21.

Just out of curiosity, what criteria do they use to determine if someone is "too drunk" to board an aircraft?

The reason I ask this is because one time, on New Year's Day in 1990, my flight out of Phoenix was delayed by several hours, so I killed time watching football and drinking beer in the airport bar. By the time it came to boarding the plane, I was feeling no pain. They didn't stop me from boarding, but I wasn't very obvious about it either. It would seem to me that someone would have to be falling down drunk, making a scene, or otherwise very obvious about it in order to be barred from boarding the aircraft.