Has anyone experienced police meeting a flight after disruptive passengers?

[Policeontheplane]

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.

Captains may leave the cockpit. On long haul flights captains leave the cockpit for their rest periods; this has to be done when the aircraft is at cruise.

Aside from that, they do of course need the loo from time to time. On a lighter note about captain involvement, l was on a flight once and a woman complained bitterly about the captain “jumping the loo queue”. 😀

@StarlightLady

Captains may leave the cockpit. On long haul flights captains leave the cockpit for their rest periods; this has to be done when the aircraft is at cruise.

Errr..I know all about that....but that's when operations are normal.

However in the context of this thread question is do you want flight crew directly involved face to face with a disruptive passenger or an apparently disruptive passenger?

Some companies and even some national authorities actually aren't keen on that idea at all.

@notimagain - l merely thought my post might be helpful to others. I assume that in this particular case it was a judgement call by the captain taking into account the safety of the aircraft, passengers and crew.

Ah fair enough..

🫣 both!
it seems like the flight to Alicante from a variety of airports is always a bad one.

What normal instruction to keep glass bottles on the floor?
Over the course of several years I have flown from the UK to the States, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Ireland and more but not once have the crew issued instructions as to where glass bottles should be stored

No

but I have been on two flights where the family was separated as they were so disruptive the flight out and the return flight (package holiday). On the return flight the captain came out to speak with them and he apologised to other passengers I have never known this to happen before and have done a lot of travelling.

the ruined the holiday of the people staying in the same hotel as them and held up everyone when they refused to pay the extra costs claiming they thought international calls were included

the parents and the children were absolutely awful and I’m sure banned from that holiday company

Yes, over 25 years ago now, some guy tried opening the airplane doors over Greenland. He was pinned down and restrained. A few of us heard and saw a scuffle but we didn’t actually know the full story until we landed in the US and the plane was full of cops armed with all sorts of weapons. The guy as taken off the flight and could help think, fuck he looks like David Koresh 😬

Yep plenty of times they've even come on board to take off people. The joys of flying often you see it a lot