{"id":305129,"date":"2025-07-30T23:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305129\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:21:18","slug":"police-drag-two-men-off-leeds-jet2-flight-after-downing-bottle-of-vodka-during-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305129\/","title":{"rendered":"Police drag two men off Leeds Jet2 flight after ‘downing bottle of vodka’ during delay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two passengers were escorted off a plane by police at Leeds Bradford Airport<\/a> after they became “uncontrollable” due to excessive vodka consumption, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

Ian Boyle, who was on his way to Chania International Airport in Greece, noticed the disturbance shortly after boarding his flight on Thursday (July 24).<\/p>\n

The Jet2<\/a> flight was delayed and during this time, Ian reports that two friends began to cause trouble after consuming a duty-free bottle of vodka. Footage reveals West Yorkshire Police<\/a> officers entering the aircraft and guiding the disruptive duo off the plane.<\/p>\n

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Later, the men were observed being led away from the runway, each flanked by several officers. Ian commented: “The airline staff were doing their best but the drunk guy just overwhelmed them.<\/p>\n

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Two passengers were escorted off a plane by police at Leeds Bradford Airport after they became “uncontrollable” due to excessive vodka consumption, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

“The police had to intervene because the man was so drunk he was uncontrollable. Apparently, the two friends brought a duty-free bottle of vodka on board and thought it was okay to drink it while we were delayed.<\/p>\n

“It was quite a serious altercation. There were kids on board who may never want to fly again.”<\/p>\n

West Yorkshire Police confirmed the incident, stating: “On 24 July, police received a request for assistance following a report of a disturbance at Leeds Bradford Airport.<\/p>\n

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Two passengers were escorted off a plane by police at Leeds Bradford Airport after they became “uncontrollable” due to excessive vodka consumption, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

“Officers attended and arrested two males on suspicion of affray. Both were later bailed pending further enquiries.”<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Jet2 confirmed: “We can confirm that two disruptive passengers have been banned from flying with us, following their appalling behaviour which led to police having to offload them.<\/p>\n

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Two passengers were escorted off a plane by police at Leeds Bradford Airport after they became “uncontrollable” due to excessive vodka consumption, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

“As a family friendly airline, we take a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive passenger behaviour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two passengers were escorted off a plane by police at Leeds Bradford Airport after they became “uncontrollable” due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[112219,748,112217,28830,393,4884,112218,3088,1860,38491,16,15,20653],"class_list":{"0":"post-305129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-bottle-of-vodka","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chania-international-airport","11":"tag-disruptive-passengers","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-ian-boyle","15":"tag-jet2","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-leeds-bradford-airport","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-west-yorkshire-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944756119818546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}