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American, Southwest Airlines Extend Alcohol Suspensions After ‘Disturbing’ Incidents
The decision comes after a flight attendant lost two teeth during an assault. Nationwide, there has been a significant rise in unruly passenger behavior, the FAA said. Southwest and American Airlines are both extending suspensions of alcoholic beverages to in-flight passengers following a significant rise in unruly passenger behavior across the country. American Airlines announced its decision in an internal memo sent to flight attendants on Saturday and obtained by HuffPost. It came one day… (www.huffpost.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
How soon will it be until we'll need to pass a breathalyzer test to board? It only takes a few morons to screw everything up for the rest of us. Everyone duck...the lawyers are headed our way.
Doesn't make sense if they are not serving alcohol on the plane and these people were drunk, then they must have been drinking in the airport or before they got there. How does not serving on the plane fix that problem?
They can and do deny boarding for obviously intoxicated passengers.
Outside of business and First Class, don't you have to pay for the booze nowadays? Whatever happened to just cutting people off?
It's about nonexistent personal responsibility. Start to bring it back by punishing the individual, not everyone else.
It's about nonexistent personal responsibility. Start to bring it back by punishing the individual, not everyone else.
I can take it or leave it. Often, I'm renting a car after the flight so I leave it.
Maybe it's time to introduce flying certificates where violent thugs as we have seen recently are not able to fly.
My concern has been evacuations in an emergency. A single drunk a-hole at an exit can caused hundreds of deaths. Ban alcohol!