Has anyone experienced police meeting a flight after disruptive passengers?

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Has anyone experienced police on a plane?

Yesterday our flight was eventful. Some drunk people moved themselves to the empty seats in front of me and produced to drink a litre of vodka which they then dropped in front of staff. The staff removed their passports, cue their bad language getting worse. It was all made worse by the drunk man behind me deciding to egg them on. At some point of the guys in front of me apparently threatened another passenger. Air steward told pliot who presumably contacted police. As we were landing the drunk guys in front of us had a big falling out and one got out of his seat, took his suitcase out of the overhead locker and ended up swapping seat.

When we landed everyone was told to return to seats and the air steward told the man who had threatened a passenger to get his bags and escorted him off first - not sure what hapened. I suspect police were waiting for him. Other drunk passengers were just allowed to leave.

Has anyone had experience of this? Will any of them be barred from flying on the airline.

On a Glasgow to Ibiza flight years ago two groups of lads just started rammying it wasn’t nice to see

There was talk of diverting to Barcelona but we carried on and 3 or 4 of them got whipped off the plane by police when we landed

they were that drunk (or whatever) that when the cabin crew managed to calm things a little and said “can we just double check your passports for something” they willingly handed them over not realising they were going straight into the hands of the police

If I’m going to a destination known for same sex group holidays, or stag/hen parties, I ALWAYS make sure to get one of the earliest flights out, and never on a Friday. Try that and it should help minimise these issues

Twice. On a flight to vegas three men were very drunk and repeatedly warned about language and smoking in the loo, met by police on arrival and coming back from Cuba a very drunk husband and wife ended up fighting each other, both arrested in Gatwick.

flying last year a lady in front of me didn't feel well not long before we landed. I wasn't too worried until the cabin crew who'd been checking on her came back with the defib and moved one her family members so he could sit next to her until we landed!!

My DD is cabin crew for EasyJet and people are arrested more often than you’d think, and EZY do issue bans of varying lengths for disruptive passengers. The weirdest one was a woman sitting in the front row who kicked off when a man moved to an empty seat in the same row as her, he asked the crew, the row was empty apart from the woman and they agreed. Well, she objected to him even though he didn’t sit directly next to her and had no actual impact on her. She got more and more abusive to the crew and threatened to punch anyone who tried to reason with her so the captain called for the police on landing and she was arrested.

The Government is apparently in discussion with airlines to create a system to share names amongst airlines of people who are blacklisted. So hopefully we'll see a reduction in this type of behaviour in future as they'll be blacklisted by all airlines not just the one they misbehaved on.

That sounds like a good plan and should be easy enough to enforce, given that we all have to give our passport details before we fly.

They could ramp up the laser that scans passport details on boarding and it could set fire to that belonging anyone on 'the list'.

Those people implying poor people are the problem are wrong. It happens in first class as well. Alcohol and/or mental health issues are the problem. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/us/disruptive-passenger-duct-tape

Yes. A flight back from Crete to Newcastle, a bit of a kerfuffle at the front of the cabin, the captain comes on and says a disruption has been reported to him by the cabin crew and "can everyone sit down and shut up. or I'll divert the flight to Birmingham and the anti-terrorist police will be waiting for you". Because to disrupt a flight is an offence. When we landed we taxied a long way away from the main area and we all stayed still - the police came on board and handcuffed a woman and a man, who seemed to be together, and the woman turned round to the cabin and said "and you can all fuck off an' all". She was still at it at the passport desk and she had two children with her.

The only time I have ever heard of the Police boarding a flight is when my parents were flying on a scheduled flight to Europe, and Sting and the rest of the band were passengers.

Yip, disgusting drunken lads travelling to Barcelona. Pilot put fasten seat belt lights on throughout the flight but they were causing mayhem from their seats including singing about bombs and plane crashes. Spanish police were waiting at the bottom of both sets of steps when we got off, but a few of the scumbags hid themselves among family groups. I pointed a couple of them out to the polis, least I could do. Vile.

Yes, several times in UK. Also upon landing in Spain, Greece and Singapore.
Once saw prisoner with an air marshal on an US plane too,

I was on a flight from London to los Angeles 12 years ago. My kids smelt weed very strongly and told the cabin crew who found the person who was smoking it. (Brother of someone quite famous) He became quite aggressive on the plane and unfortunately the plane was full so difficult to move people. He was restrained in his seat and when we landed in LA we were told to remain in our seats until law enforcement officers removed the offending person.
All very exciting (not) he was very loud and horrible to the cabin crew.

I came back from Tenerife to Edinburgh on an easyJet flight and the poor crew looked shattered. They said they had had one of the worst flights of their career and there had been a stag do on board and they were just awful. They'd also eaten and drunk loads of
booze. I wasn't drinking as I was driving on my return to Edinburgh but I was hungry!!

That didn’t help the drunk in business class from Heathrow to Tokyo a few years ago.

Wouldn’t they know the outcome themselves, then, if that was the case?

The only yhing I've expierenced was on a flight back to Manchester aboutv18 months ago. I was on the 2nd to back row on an aisle seat and there was a bloke right behind me. He seemed pleasant enough, a little chat before I sat down and he helped with my over head case.
Once we landed all passengers were repeatedly told to remain seated.
Then police came on board and handcuffed him.
Im not sure what was going on though.
This wad on a flight returning from Vienna.

I’ve seen a drunk passenger be denied boarding by the captain a couple of times, and also someone be met off the plane by police, and the one where the armed police check all the men’s passports on the way out and someone is carried away.

Another unpleasant encounter, this time at Tenerife airport waiting in a queue at passport control....and this was before the new regulations were brought in.
A Spanish woman who had been on the flight, obviously didn't think she had to queue, so she pushed and shoved her way to the front very aggresively. People were asking her to wait, she ignored them, then one lady in particular told her loudly to stop shoving, She turned around and lashed out. Unfortunately she missed the lady who had shouted at her, and hit her elderly mother right in the face, the lady would have fallen but for others catching her.
The Spanish authorities were useless; let the Spanish woman through, and after several minutes asked the elderly woman if she wanted to do anything about the incident or not.

Pointless as the Spanish woman had gone.

Yes someone was smoking weed in the toilet. And on a flight from a country where its freely available so extra obvious. The flight was doing a "double drop" and he was escorted off at the first stop.
He was quite surprised and said that his wife was waiting for him at the other airport and how would he get home ! 😂

That is so funny. I hope they actually made it as far as the car rental place to tell the staff that they only needed it for the day as they were only going to Memphis.

I think there are plans to ban passengers from all airlines when they behave like this, not just the affected airline as happens now. Good thing too.

Yep. I worked for Jet2 before I switched to Virgin Atlantic. Long haul isn't without it's problems but they're far, far better than the flights to Ibiza, Larnaca, Benidorm ect. Had flights diverted, police on arrival, passengers escourted off before we've even taxied the runway, pilots refusing to take off because they won't put their seatbelts on or sit down at all. I used to hate it. A 11hr flight full of children excited they're going to Disney was less hassle than a 3/4hr flight full of drunken adults.

Yes police but not for drunk people. On a flight returning from South America to another European country. Didn’t get the usual announcement on landing for a while. 4 burly policeman very quickly came on plane, grabbed a guy, slam on to the aisle floor, hand cuffed and led off.
Found out later he was some kind of drug cartel bigwig trying to sneak back in to the country we had arrived in.

alternatively, put all the on-a-list numpties on a one-way AI to the South Pole

includes free-skydiving lessons - arrive in your 'hotel' via parachute

"oops, no parachutes"

"did you hear loud screams and a gentle, collective thump 25,000 ft below us?"

"no"

"me neither"