Another flight fiasco

Oh I thought you were going to recount the fiasco of the (sober) pilot who took his flight to Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf this morning.

I am nosy so had to google that Maw

Yes I expected it to be the Heathrow - Edinburgh - Dusseldorf flight!

GabriellaG I do so agree - I haven't flown for a few years now - health problems have made me nervous of flying - and to be honest the more I read of these drunken incidents, the less I feel like flying ever again. To say nothing of the ever decreasing seat pitch on flights, making for such an uncomfortable journey

I thought it was going to be Willkommen in Edinburgh too!
Did no-one look out of the cockpit window?

^Her OH wanted to 'take it outside' with a passenger mid flight.
I remember being on a flight when a nervous? passenger kept trying to fiddle with the emergency door - DH and another male passenger were holding themselves in readiness to jump on him. The cabin crew moved him when we told them.
I don't think he was drunk, just very strange.

Yes, I thought it would be about the London-Dusseldorf flight via Edinburgh. Much more interesting than yet another drunk.

Supersavers posted on FB a photograph of a B A plane with the caption "Should have gone to Dusseldorf'

<sigh> Specsavers - thats where I should have gone.

I wouldn't want to fly again with these crack-pots about. I spent years,1970's to 2009, flying all over the place with not a spot of bother ( apart from when someone was shot on the tarmac before entering the flight I should have gone on ) but I wasn't unduly bothered as the shooter was caught and we were herded on a different flight . Long-hauls shorter hauls---no drunks on my trips, or if there were they didn't kick-off.

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I'm another who has given up on flying - makes us both ill and the whole process from start to finish is so dehumanising. And why the need to alcohol on a flight of a couple of hours? To be honest DH and I had not bothered with the so called meals even on the longer flights we used to take.....you are just sitting there anyway!