Drunks On Flights

[vernonk]

How bout introducing breathalyser tests for passengers and, if they're over the limit, they're not allowed to fly?

[DTCwordfan]

Yorkshire airlines have outside toilets...and drink aboard inc the pilot's cabin, whiskeyron.....see here:

[EDDIE51]

It already is illegal to allow passengers who are drunk to board a flight. They are a safety risk, if there is an emergency evacuation. These people should never have been allowed on the plane. Other passengers said that at the departure gate this group were so drunk they were having difficulty standing up.

[ummmm]

Did you watch the footage, Eddie?

[Peter Pedant]

// No...most people manage to fly without getting into a drunken scrap.//

on a very long flight I had an indian lady in a night dress waking me up and telling me I was in her room ..... I got one of herfamily to mollify her

[ummmm]

You were dreaming....

[ludwig]

// on a very long flight I had an indian lady in a night dress waking me up and telling me I was in her room ..//

The exact same thing happened to me once, except it wasn't on a plane and after a bit of an argument it turned out I was in her room.

[Peter Pedant]

hey Ludo when I was in isolation I woke up to find a dement coming out of my personalised bog at 2 am and throwing her teno- nappy in my face which is what might have woken me .... and going back to her bed

sand no it was not a dream. she got norovirus after me I hesitate to say I gave it to her - hem hem she stole it from me.....

it was just like the wedding night scene in Jane Eyre
erm xc the word norovirus does not occur in that book

Sister was NOT pleased;it wrecked her norovirus stats

[EDDIE51]

Ummm Yes I watched the video.Glad I was not one of the other passengers.

[ummmm]

So am I. It must have been terrifying. They don't look as drunk as reported though.

[Gromit]

When I travel on holiday flights, I would estimate the majority of people are over the driving limit. And they are sold alcohol on the plane and carryon drinking. Even so, most flights reach their destination without incident.
So the breathalyser idea is a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and would punish the majority of passengers who have done nothing wrong.

[ummmm]

There are a lot of nervous flyers who have a drink to calm their nerves. I would probably be over the limit every time I board a flight but I've never actually been drunk.

[TWR]

These louts were allowed on the plane Izzed, that should not happen, I've always said, if a passenger / passengers cause trouble in any way, they should be banned from flying in the UK for 1 year & a heavy fine.

[ummmm]

1 year wouldn't be much of a deterrent.

[andy-hughes]

I sympathise absolutely with passengers cooped up with these morons, and other like them.

I have no sympathy with the airlines because they could ensure that airport operators cease to make vast profits from airport bars.

If you give a proportion of the population a few hours to hang around, and a bar, they will drink - that is human nature, which is exploited by the airport operators.

That said, the responsibility for safety lies with the individual crew on each aircraft, and it is for them to see potential trouble in passengers who have obviously had to too much to drink, and stop them from boarding.

This situation could have been prevented if the rules which are in place were implemented properly.

[EDDIE51]

Why has this not been implemented ?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/19/drunk-air-passengers-could-be-banned-boarding-uk-flights

[TWR]

I totally agree with your link Eddie, no one flying should have to put up with this, I should have said a LIFE ban rather than a 1 year ban & a hefty fine.

[viv41]

Agree with a life ban TWR. I've been on a plane with a very drunken passenger and it was VERY scary ...

[viv41]

^ That sounds like the passenger was with me, but he wasn't !!