Ban in Flight Boozing
Last week I returned to Glasgow from a short business trip to Frankfurt with a colleague.
On my return flight to Glasgow from Frankfurt last week I had first hand experience of a disturbingly drunk and unpleasant passenger.
We had just taken off from Frankfurt airport when a chap seated about three rows in front of myself and my colleague left his seat and headed towards the lavatories. This was before the ‘fasten seatbelts’ light had been extinguished so the vigilant flight attendants immediately told him that he needed to return to his seat.
He clearly wasn’t in the mood to be co-operative, already seriously inebriated when he embarked he became argumentative and aggressive with the long-suffering flight attendants. Eventually he sat back down but as soon as he was able his finger was on the flight attendant call button and he was ordering more booze.
No more than 10 minutes into the flight our belligerent European co-passenger was on his feet again, this time trying to make friends with some of his fellow passengers, none of whom wanted to engage in conversation with him. Several times, as flight attendants passed his seat, he leaned over and tapped them on the backside. They were very clear in their warnings about his behaviour but he persisted in annoying fellow passengers until we landed at Glasgow.
There have been a number of high profile reports of disturbing incidents in which drunk passengers have put the lives of themselves their fellow passengers and crew at risk. In one such incident a drunk passenger threatened to open the aircraft’s emergency door while they were at 30,000 feet. This resulted in the passenger being rewarded with a jail sentence.
In another incident a drunken woman, on a flight to Tenerife, hurled abuse at the flight attendants. She was given a two month jail sentence for her unacceptable behaviour.
Worrying incidents like these raise the question, ‘Is it ever acceptable to serve alcohol on aircraft?’
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