Monday 30 October 2017

It is time to BAN alcohol on aeroplanes?

I came across an interesting online article by Martin Townsend in the Express.co.uk entitled "It is time to BAN alcohol on aeroplanes"

Did you know that the death of 31 people 30 years ago in the King’s Cross fire was the trigger for the ban on smoking on the London Underground?


Then in 2008 The ban on alcohol on the Underground came in to force and succeed in making Tube travel more pleasant. (this ban was not introduced because of a disaster)

With a sizable minority of plane passengers not behaving appropriately under the influence of alcohol, (despite it being illegal to enter an aircraft when drunk or to be drunk on an aircraft). Could this end in the ultimate disaster of bringing a plane down if a complete ban doesn't take place?

The maximum penalty for entering an aircraft when drunk or to be drunk on an aircraft is two years’ jail.

A total of 387 people were arrested at British airports and on flights between February 2016 and February 2017 – a rise of 50 per cent in a year.

Mr Townsend made another great point in his article that "Aggressive pub drunks are bad enough but innocent bystanders can always head for the exit. There is no such option on a plane where onlookers are left to quietly fret."

What do you think? should more be done? have you ever seen someone stopped from boarding a plane due to drunkenness? Were you aware that it is illegal to be drunk on a plane before reading this article?

www.alcohol-breathalysers.co.uk

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