Pilot Slams Drunk Passengers On Ibiza-Bound Flight: ‘This Is Not A Party Bus’

Passengers on a recent Ibiza-bound flight got a smackdown from the flight’s pilot after he left the cockpit to reprimand several rowdy individuals aboard the plane. The incident occurred last week on a flight leaving Edinburgh, Scotland, after the passengers had become heavily intoxicated prior to takeoff and accosted flight crew.

The incident was first reported by British tabloid newspaper the Sun on Tuesday and later confirmed to the Daily Mail as having occurred Saturday. The Jet2 pilot reportedly told those on the craft: “A lot of you think this is a party bus, but it is not.”

“People want a good holiday, a nice flight and not have any trouble, loud raucous behaviour and drunkenness,” the unidentified pilot said, according to the Sun. “And unfortunately this flight has started badly already with verbal aggression going on which is not going to be tolerated.”

According to one witness who recorded the incident, a man and his girlfriend “had apparently been verbally abusive to staff,” and the male passenger was later removed from the plane.

“There were a few people who were drunk,” the witness said. “A girl behind us could barely look straight.”

Some passengers commended the pilot for taking a stand and applauded after he finished speaking, the passenger told the Sun.

“We can confirm the captain made the decision to offload a male passenger from our Edinburgh flight LS805 to Ibiza on Saturday 26th August,” a Jet2 spokesperson told Daily Mail. “This was due to his increasingly anti-social and aggressive behaviour. As a family friendly airline the safety and welfare of our customers and staff is always our number one priority, as our captain demonstrated on this occasion.”

Last week’s Jet2 flight out of Edinburgh wasn’t the only Ibiza-bound flight to find passengers engaging in questionable behavior. A video of two individuals engaging in a sexual act aboard a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Ibiza earlier this year caused a stir, though the woman later maintained that the stunt was a “lapdance.”

“I heard them talking about it but I thought they were joking. The guy was shouting, ‘Anyone got a jelly?’” witness Kieran Williams told the Daily Mail at the time. “We all laughed but then ten minutes later they actually did it. They seemed so drunk, they brought a lot of attention to themselves.”

Jet2 did not immediately return International Business Times’ request for comment.