How Often

[TWR]

Do you read about drunks on-board Flight's? should they be Barred from every Airline in the world? & yes it can be implemented through their passport.

[ummmm]

I've never seen a drunk on a plane.

[Buenchico]

>>>How often do you read about drunks on-board flights?

Given that there are around 3½ billion passenger flights each year, remarkably rarely!


>>>should they be barred from every airline in the world?

No. Many people get drunk in public at some time in their lives but they don't all make a habit of it!

[TWR]

I should have added, cause trouble to airline stewards.

[Mamyalynne]

As a percentage it is not usually a big problem, so best to deal with on a case by case basis.

[mallyh]

are you talking about a life ban .

[-Talbot-]

Not very often.

[TWR]

Yes Mallyh, but's that's my opinion.

[ukbod2015]

i`m sure most are aware but boozing on a plane is not a great idea and both flying and boozing dehydrate you - maybe that concentrates the effect.

[woofgang]

papers print stuff about people being drunk on planes (and I don't see it that often) because "Flight passed off peacefully" is not news!

[Prudie]

I've never experienced it but coincidentally to your question this is in today's mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3170932/Party-s-Ryanair-bans-duty-free-booze-board-flights-UK-Ibiza-attempt-improve-comfort-safety.html

[ichkeria]

Much as I detest Ryan Air that would seem a more sensible approach to the problem than trying to ban people for life after the damage has already been done. And you can be stopped from boarding a flight if you are already under the influence

[joggerjayne]

Maybe if people behave really badly on flights, their punishment should be that they are only allowed to fly with RyanAir in future.

[tamborine]

Hefty charge for alcohol should suffice

[joggerjayne]

Nooo

[jno]

I've been on a few jumbos where not a single passenger has caused trouble to the stewards. That's out of 400+ people. Apparently this happens quite often.

Of course, there's a place for condign punishments... HGV drivers who kill cyclists should never be allowed to drive again, anywhere, ever. But drunk airline passengers seem to be much less of a problem and don't kill anyone.

[237SJ]

Sounds like a great marketing ploy by Ryanair to increase their onboard duty free alcohol sales. I bet they`ve got extra supplies.

[Clanad]

Speaking from experience with U.S. Regulations, it's against those regs to even let anyone onboard that appers inebriated. Additionally, a passenger can't drink alcohol unless it's served to them... they can't bring their own.

[Prudie]

I can 'cos I sneak it in my handbag in small bottles :-)

[andy-hughes]

The simple way to avoid drunks on airlines is for airports to stop selling alcohol!

The owners of airports are not airlines, so they maximise any and all opportunities. How else do you explain being able to buy alcohol when you are waiting for a plane.

People get bored and / or nervous waiting for a flight, so they drink, often to excess, and the problems become the airlines’ – not the airports, because the trouble starts when the drunken passenger is confined in a small pressurised tube which exacerbates his or her boredom, feeling of restriction, and the effect of alcohol is increased – a recipe for trouble.

So, let the airlines lobby the airlines to stop selling alcohol, and the problem will disappear overnight.

Of course, it won’t happen – but that is the answer.

[joggerjayne]

Those of us who spend quite a lot of time sitting around at airports ... (okay, not a huge amount, but I make a return flight probably twenty times a year) ... I'd go nuts if I couldn't have a couple of vodka and tonics while I sit reading my books.