Who’s responsible here? Airlines or passengers. Hawaii flight are in focus for the wrong reasons.
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Who’s responsible here? Airlines or passengers. Hawaii flight are in focus for the wrong reasons.
If intoxication issues continue to escalate, airlines across the board need to unite and remove alcohol from All flights. Passengers already drunk may not board another flight for 24 hours or until sober. Period. With the return of traveling by jet, the behavior on board and in airports has gotten so out of hand, we choose to not fly. I truly miss Maui, the wonderful residents, and friends there.
Why such drastic answer for millions of flights and fliers? And you’re also giving a 24 hr window? How do you expect this to be monitered realistically? Just make sure f a.s know they can refuse and encourage that if a oerson is acting “off” rather than maje a sweeping, unilateral decision for all people because of one idiot?
Seems to me you could eliminate the problem by having a maximum of two alcoholic drinks on any flight.
With so many inflight intoxicated Passengers in recent months, it may become necessary to begin at the TSA checkpoints to start make Alkohol checks before boarding all Passengers on Transpacific flights, including to all Hawai’i Islands. Airplanes should not be considered Boxing Galleries.
Part of this his story that doesn’t make sense is she says”they sat him next to my parents”. WN doesn’t assign seats and people choose their own once on board
Establish minimum Mandatory fines and jail sentences for conviction—the courts (according to the articles I’ve read) pass out slaps on the wrist. Stop serving alcohol away from meals (you really need to sell drinks on an inter island flight?). Fine the airlines when intoxicated passengers are allowed to board. Give the husband who beat on the drunk free miles.
Southwest has used the “unwanted behavior” in its announcements for at least the last 3-4 years. Was a weekly Southwest flyer for many years.
We were on Southwest flights to and from Kauai in late January and FA’s made the same announcement regarding “unwanted behavior etc” then. In fact I first noticed this announcement being made pretty regularly after I started flying on the mainland on Southwest again after the pandemic circa mid 2022.