British Airlines is introducing “dry” flights, banning alcohol on morning flights
The British airline Jet2 is introducing a new measure due to aggressive passengers. Offering alcohol from Monday to Monday morning. The measure applies to all the company’s destinations, including flights to Prague. Not everyone agrees with the Jet2 approach.
The ban will take effect before eight o’clock in the morning. The experience of Jet2 shows that it is in the morning that passengers often board the plane drunk. The restriction will also affect Jet2 lines to Prague. Tuesday’s flight from Leeds to the Czech capital departs at seven o’clock in the morning, Friday’s flight from Manchester starts fifteen minutes earlier.
Jet2 carries tens of thousands of passengers a week. Last year, airlines banned nearly five hundred aggressive passengers, who were often under the influence of alcohol.
In more than fifty cases, the company has even issued a lifetime ban to customers. In one case, Jet2 extends over £ 12,000 to passengers. The drunk passenger began to attack other passengers, forcing the plane to land an unplanned landing.
“We are the first European airline to take this bold step and we are urging our airport partners to join our responsible business,” said Jet2 CEO Phil Ward. If the situation does not improve, Ward threatened to introduce “dry” flights regardless of the time of day.
So far, however, he has provoked mainly negative reactions. Glasgow and Edinburgh airports have already announced that you consider the current restrictions on alcohol sales to be sufficient.
“If we have evidence of problems at our airport, we are open to suggestions for their solution. But we don’t have any information from the airlines, the police or our dealers that this problem is occurring in Edinburgh, so we won’t make any changes, “he told the newspaper. Scot spokesman for Scotland’s largest airport.
Cases of dangerously drunk passengers are “very rare,” Glasgow airport officials said. Other British airports and airlines do not support the proposal to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol on board aircraft.