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Last week I returned to Glasgow from a short business trip to Frankfurt with a colleague.

On my return flight to Glasgow from Frankfurt last week I unfortunately shared my flight with a disturbingly drunk and unpleasant passenger.

We had just taken off from Frankfurt airport when a man who was seated about three rows in front of myself and my colleague left his seat and lurched drunkenly towards the lavatories. This was before the ‘fasten seatbelts’ light had been turned off so the vigilant flight attendants wated no time in telling him that he needed to return to his seat.

He wasn’t in the mood to be co-operative, clearly already seriously inebriated he became argumentative and aggressive with the tolerant flight attendants. Eventually he sat back down but as soon as he could he was ordering more booze.

No more than 10 minutes into the flight our belligerent European co-passenger was on his feet again, this time trying to make friends with some of his fellow passengers, none of whom wanted to engage in conversation with him. Several times during the flight he leaned over and patted the busy flight attendants on the backside. They were very clear in their warnings about his behaviour but he persisted in annoying fellow passengers until we landed at Glasgow.

There have been a number of high profile reports of worrying incidents in which drunk passengers have been responsible for putting the lives of themselves their fellow travellers at risk. In one such incident a drunk passenger threatened to open the aircraft’s emergency door while they were at 30,000 feet. This resulted in the passenger being given a jail sentence.

In another incident a drunken woman hurled abuse at the cabin staff on a flight to Tenerife. She was given a two month jail sentence for her unacceptable behaviour.

Incidents like these raise the question, ‘Is it ever acceptable to serve alcohol on aircraft?’

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