View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
|
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
On my last flight to asia, a guy was denied boarding because he showed up at the boarding gate wasted....
Should they ban booze onboard or at airports? No, because the vast majority of people are smart enough not to get hosed before boarding on while onboard. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Seoulman69
Joined: 14 Dec 2009
|
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Quote: |
But the 'nerves' excuse is usually pure hokum, they are boozers finding a super excuse to less furtively drink at a time when they know they shouldn't. |
So the OP wants to ban alcohol on flights and you claim there are times of the day you shouldn't be drinking. Why not let people do what they want and if they act inappropriately punish them accordingly.
If someone gets so drunk on a flight that they are a disturbance then they should be banned from flying for a period of time.
Punishing everyone for the actions of a minority is wrong. As is forcing your beliefs as to when is an acceptable time to drink. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul
|
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
On my last flight to asia, a guy was denied boarding because he showed up at the boarding gate wasted....
Should they ban booze onboard or at airports? No, because the vast majority of people are smart enough not to get hosed before boarding on while onboard. |
There is a big difference in denying a drunk person entry on a flight and having a passenger get so trashed ON a flight that he endangers other passengers. On a flight, you're stuck with the passenger until the destination is reached or the plane is diverted, which is a huge blow to the rest of the passengers. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap
|
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
How many diverted flights have you been on? I've ridden on many dozens of planes, yet to see it. The very rare times that occurs, it usually makes the news. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul
|
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
None, but still, the danger is there. I'd welcome a ban on alcohol on flights and more airlines are doing just that. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
|
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:30 am Post subject: |
|
|
Yaya wrote: |
PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
On my last flight to asia, a guy was denied boarding because he showed up at the boarding gate wasted....
Should they ban booze onboard or at airports? No, because the vast majority of people are smart enough not to get hosed before boarding on while onboard. |
There is a big difference in denying a drunk person entry on a flight and having a passenger get so trashed ON a flight that he endangers other passengers. On a flight, you're stuck with the passenger until the destination is reached or the plane is diverted, which is a huge blow to the rest of the passengers. |
That was pretty much my point yaya.
I think reasonable people know not to get completely wasted before boarding. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
|
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
How about banning alcohol on flights under 3 hours? For those 10 hours overseas flights, I need that dang booze. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
|
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:16 am Post subject: |
|
|
jvalmer wrote: |
How about banning alcohol on flights under 3 hours? For those 10 hours overseas flights, I need that dang booze. |
Just curious here but why do you need booze on the longer flights? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
lithium
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
|
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
Yaya wrote: |
Squire wrote: |
You have a bad experience with one person so now everyone should be forced to abstain from drinking on a potentially long journey. I hate this 'liberal' way of thinking |
Not liberal, practical. Many passengers whose erratic behavior forced the diversion of a plane were drunk, and perhaps if alcohol hadn't been on that plane, they might not have gotten erratic.
WestJet spokesman Robert Palmer told the Calgary Sun that drinking and flying is a daily issue for commercial-airline staff to deal with.
"It will certainly happen somewhere in the system, on average, once a day," Palmer said last year, adding that hot-spot vacation flights are the worst offenders.
"It is problematic to deal with unruly guests and we try obviously to assess this problem before it becomes a problem in the air. Inebriation is by far the most common issue."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/following-another-alcohol-fuelled-airline-assault-time-ban-170351872.html |
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
silkhighway
Joined: 24 Oct 2010 Location: Canada
|
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I just came across this thread. I'm not much of an in-flight drinker, but I admit I enjoy a drink or two at an airport bar while waiting for my flight. Where else can you have a beer at 7:30am and not be out of place? I also find having a pint at the bar relaxing during what is usually otherwise a boring or stressful event.
This thread makes me wonder though. I have been on a couple of flights where someone who has been drinking started to get ignorant and belligerent, however not to the point where it became a problem. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
|
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
In Canada two drunk women on a flight from Toronto to Cuba managed to get their flight turned around while it was almost at their destination.
I can't believe they couldn't just strap them to the seats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5O0VyOAsus |
|
Back to top |
|
|
bossface
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
|
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
This thread is just repugnant. I say you teetotalers should be banned from the skies. I don't need to be judged while I'm throwing back a couple Heinekens in my noble effort to sleep the rest of the way on my 8 a.m. flight to Bangkok. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Just fly economy on United. Paying 7-9 USD for a drink deters most passengers from partaking in much drinking. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
|
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
catman wrote: |
In Canada two drunk women on a flight from Toronto to Cuba managed to get their flight turned around while it was almost at their destination.
I can't believe they couldn't just strap them to the seats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5O0VyOAsus |
That was the flight to Cuba? Perhaps the airline didn't want the women subjected to Cuban courts. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cave Dweller
Joined: 17 Aug 2014 Location: Seoul
|
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
They can't land in America unless it is a life threatening disaster. It is a flight to Cuba, after all. Perhaps there were no authorities in Cuba that were willing to take these ladies into custody so the only option was to go back to Toronto and give them to the mounties.
CentralCali wrote: |
catman wrote: |
In Canada two drunk women on a flight from Toronto to Cuba managed to get their flight turned around while it was almost at their destination.
I can't believe they couldn't just strap them to the seats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5O0VyOAsus |
That was the flight to Cuba? Perhaps the airline didn't want the women subjected to Cuban courts. |
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|