Alcohol and flying is becoming a bit of a dangerous mixture, according to new figures that show disruptive booze-fuelled violence mid-flight is on the rise.
From celebrities to everyday pax, flyers are having trouble keeping it together, with some 40 percent more alcohol-related incidents reported on flights during the first six months of this year alone.
But do these figures really come as a surprise?
It seems like it’s every other week we’re heading about a passenger is being removed from an aircraft for unacceptable alcohol-related behaviour.
For example, it was only two weeks ago that an airline was forced to divert one its planes to remove a 34-year-old man from Dundee who reportedly sexually assaulted a female cabin crew member, swore and acted aggressively toward other passengers.
The aircraft, which was headed from Glasgow to Turkey, diverted to Gatwick Airport where he was removed. It’s believed he didn’t even know where he was when he was being escorted off the aircraft.
There’s also the case of the man that was fined $2,500 after he allegedly drank an entire bottle of vodka and then squeezed a female passenger’s breast on a flight from Chile to Perth.
We can’t leave out the massive brawl on Thomas Airways last month carrying 180 British tourists from Manchester to Crete.
To keep a long story short, there was a large dispute between a group of young passengers that had smuggled a bottle of vodka on a flight and the rest of the plane.
Oh and who could forget Kate Moss’ alleged ‘disruptive behaviour’ on an easyJet flight last month, which saw the model reportedly lash out after she refused more alcohol.