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Abusive Jet2 passenger gets six months prison sentence
A drunk and disruptive passenger on a Jet2 flight has been given a six-month prison sentence and has been banned from flying with the airline for life.
Kiran Jagdev, from Leicester, confronted and abused other passengers on the flight from Tenerife to East Midlands and even kicked the seat of a child.
Jet2 said he displayed a ‘continued pattern of totally unacceptable behaviour’.
Despite the intervention of an off-duty police officer, flight crew had to call for police assistance upon arrival.
At Leicester Crown Court on Thursday, Judge Philip Head, said: "This demands a deterrent sentence so people who travel by air and get drunk will know there are consequences."
Jet2.com managing director Phil War said: "It is very clear that drinking to excess, including the illicit consumption of duty free alcohol on the aircraft, contributed significantly to this behaviour.
"This is why, as a family-friendly airline flying millions of people on holiday every year, Jet2.com is calling for measures to better control the sale and consumption of alcohol purchased at airports.
"I would like to pay tribute to both our crew and the police for the way they handled this incident. I can assure customers that as a family-friendly airline we will not under any circumstances tolerate this behaviour, and Ms Jagdev has been banned from flying with Jet2.com for life."
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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