Some Passengers Banned on AS Flight Back From the DC Insurrection
Jan 12, 2021, 6:34 pm
#61
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With regard to landing immediately and offloading passengers, my understanding is that the costs associated with that (landing fees, extra fuel burn, extra time affecting the crew and of course the added inconvenience of that delay to passengers) ends up costing more time and money than the irritation is worth.
One of my favorite stories in this regard involved a group of British and Irish tourists who had became drunk and rowdy, having a food fight on a Northwest flight from London to Minneapolis. Word is some members of the group supposedly dispatched their children to steal liquor from the drinks carts after the crew had cut them off. The FAs were unable to control them but it just so happened that a fair sized (in every sense of the word) contingent of the U.S. freestyle wrestling team were also aboard that flight and they had no problem restraining the offenders. One of the group had assaulted a flight attendant who had tried to restrain him. He was arrested upon landing, plead guilty to the charge and was sentenced to a month in jail.
Jan 12, 2021, 8:15 pm
#62
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Jan 13, 2021, 2:44 pm
#64
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Moderator Note; Heading off-topic. Some posts deleted. Time to close.
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