A few days ago, a pilot made use of his air police sovereignty, as laid down in paragraph 12 of the Aviation Security Act, and expelled a few obviously drunk holidaymakers from Mallorca well before the Balearic island. According to various headlines of large German-language online media as well as the well-versed in excess tourism issues Mallorca Magazine the captain is said to have “thrown” or even “thrown” the guests, who were decked out with alcohol and e-cigarettes, out of the low-cost airline Ryanair’s holiday plane, which, however, should by no means be visualized.
Rather, the six men described as “abusive and disrespectful” were apparently escorted out of the plane by the police at Albrecht Dürer Airport in Nuremberg after the take-off was aborted, not only to punish them with a missed Ballermann trip. There is talk of a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The plane was finally able to take off after an hour delay.
Flying used to be considered urbane, today it is seen as a climate killer
In general, it has once again become very clear in the past few days that the meanwhile around 50-year-old advertising slogan for the Opel GT “Only flying is nicer” clearly arose from the zeitgeist of the 1970s. While the means of transport car and plane symbolized social advancement instead of being denounced as climate killers, today air travelers somehow feel like they are constantly being persecuted, regardless of whether they are drunk cheap tourists or urbane multi-billionaires.
According to Forbes, the richest European and luxury brand imperator (including Louis Vuitton and Moët & Chandon) Bernard Arnault recently sold his private jet. According to a FAZ-reported that the quarrelsome Frenchman and Sarkozy friend felt shadowed by environmental activists. However, this can only be described as a victory for the climate to a limited extent. Because Arnault doesn’t want to give up flying – after all, as an entrepreneur worth billions, it’s a kind of God-given obligation to be able to jet from China to the USA via France. Instead, he says he will regularly rent private jets. This made it less easy to monitor his travel movements.
A third example best shows how limited the freedom above the clouds really is – even if you don’t have an island for a drinking holiday or to accumulate your own wealth as your destination – that of Pakistan International Airlines. Once again, one of the airline’s crew members did not show up for the return trip to their home country of Pakistan, in the most recent case – according to the specialist portal aerotelegraph.com – for the flight from Toronto, Canada, to Islamabad. The Canadian border protection agency assumes that the missing flight attendant in Canada simply wants to start a new life.