Chaos on a plane. This weekend, social media showed images that are not new, but they make it clear that the tourist season has begun, and with it the chaos. What is new is that it is all kicking off thousands of metres above sea level and on board an aircraft loaded with young people eager to party, as they had already shown before taking off at Cologne airport.
That was the origin of the flight that landed at Son Sant Joan, and on which the cabin crew were fully involved and complicit in the wild and festive atmosphere shown in the images posted on the Instagram account Inselfieber, the account for an event scheduled for 14 June, which is expected to bring together 35, 000 people, which is being billed as ‘the biggest party in Germany in Mallorca’ and will be held at the Rudolf Weber-Arena in Oberhausen.
This ‘party in the clouds’ to attend a celebration in Mallorca was already evident before boarding, with passengers dancing and drinking in the terminal, something that continued during the journey, in which various entertainers raised the temperature of the passengers, who were totally committed to a weekend of wild partying in Mallorca. Even before flying to the island.
So it would appear that per-flight drinking at airport bars is not only a problem in the UK, Germany has the same problem too. It has been a long running debate, drinking at British airports, and now Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary wants airports to change their drinking rules to curb anti-social behaviour and outbursts on flights. The 63-year-old has called for alcohol limits in airports to amid a rise in disorder on flights. “It’s not that easy for airlines to identify people who are inebriated at the gate, particularly if they are boarding with two or three others,” he said recently.
“As long as they can stand up and shuffle they will get through. Then when the plane takes off we see the misbehaviour. We don’t want to begrudge people having a drink. But we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000 feet.” O'Leary has suggested that by limiting passengers to just two drinks before they get on board could be the solution.
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Can't really see why anyone would suggest banning sales of alcohol either on planes or at airports. I'd guess that 99% of passengers drink sensibly and do not over-indulge. I have taken thousands of flights over the years and only remember being drunk on one of them - after an extensive schnapps testing over two days in Denmark. And I simply went to sleep. And it was a very, very long time ago. There seems to be some instinctive negative response to every problem - "ban it." Why should my enjoyment of a drink in the lounges before take off be spoilt because of the actions of a tiny minority?
Just don't sell alcohol in airports
RocketIt follows that the worst drink you can have before and during any Flight , IS ALCOHOL. Not to mention any in flight Emergency and passenger response. The overall effects are damaging to the human body, and the worst drink you can take.
I must say the video shows perhaps slightly childish behaviour but these people do not appear to be unruly hooligans. As for on the plane, if the entire aircraft was booked for this "event" then again laughing and singing should not present a problem. The problem is one or two drunks amongst a plane full of 'normal' people. On that score very severe financial penalties plus banned for life from the airline should be the norm. Many years ago flying KLM back from Buenos Aires to Schipol and behind me was a group of young people that turned out to be a band going to do a recording session. From different parts of the plane people were coming to talk to the guy behind me, leaning on the back of my seat and being generally annoying. Suddenly, in a gesture of apology a hand appears between the seats offering me a joint, which I accepted. Next thing I know a steward is next to me informing me I am seated in the first row of the no smoking section. Never mind I was smoking drugs, I was in the wrong section of the plane to smoke anything. Only on KLM.
Just get rid of alcohol in airports and on planes completely to solve this growing problem. Not a chance with the money being made from the sales of such.