Bad behavior gets Scottish tourists a lifetime airline ban

By Jessica Plautz  on 
Bad behavior gets Scottish tourists a lifetime airline ban
Jet2 has banned three passengers from flying after "anti-social" behavior. Credit: Christopher Furlong, Getty Images

Three Scottish tourists have been called out by British budget airline Jet2 for "anti-social" behavior.

The airline alleges that a trio of passengers, two men and one woman, were on a flight from Glasgow to Dalaman where they brought their own alcohol on board, verbally abused the cabin crew, and danced, sang and stripped their way to bans from flying the carrier.

The three were handed over to Turkish authorities upon arriving in Dalaman on July 13, according to the airline. Jet2 announced lifetime flying bans for the two men and a six-month ban for the woman.

One of the men "sang loudly and danced down the aisle, stripped off his t-shirt and made vulgar sexual gestures, thrusting at a member of the cabin crew and then throughout the cabin, in full view of families with children."

Jet2's charges against the passengers is like a laundry list of what not to do as an airline passenger, ranging from not wearing a seatbelt to threatening the flight's captain.

"When firmly asked to sit down," the airline says one of the men "spat in the face of the senior cabin crew whilst physically blocking the walk-way along with torrents of verbal and threatening abuse."

The behavior is so egregious that it makes the airline's announcement about the passengers look like an indictment of modern air travel rather than a factual account of an actual incident.

"These are clear examples, indeed some of the worst I have come across, of why we need a national shared database of passengers that have been banned for disruptive behavior for the airlines to tackle the growing problem together," Phil Ward, managing director of Jet2.com, said in the statement. "We will do everything we can to stamp out this industry wide issue through our Onboard Together program."

"Onboard Together" is Jet2's mission, launched in June, to instill a higher standard of passenger behavior among air travelers. The three passengers called out for behavior this week are just the latest examples of the airline's vigilantism against drunkenness and flying.

The airline announced last week that it plans to sue a 21-year-old passenger who used "foul and abusive language" with cabin crew on a flight to Ibiza. The airline also banned that passenger from flying the carrier for life.

And at the beginning of July, the airline refused to fly boxer Rocky Fielding and seven of his friends back to Manchester from Ibiza.

Police Scotland has not confirmed to Mashable a complaint against the travelers.

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