Famous Spanish singer involved in air rage event

[enjolras]

In Spanish:

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/11/13/espana/1194946454.html

The Spanish singer Melendi caused IB6401 (MAD-MEX) to return to MAD after 3 hours in the air. It looks like he had a great time refueling himself before attacking a FA when she denied him more drinks. The captain decided to go back as they had another 9 hours of flight ahead and the man wasn't in the mood of calming down. He is now under arrest.

[FlyingCroc]

Offload this asshole.:ok:

[Panman]

Why? All he did was tell us what was reported in the el mundo newspaper.
No need to be abusive about it.

[fendant]

A wise decision by the skipper. Hope that they ban him from flying decent airlines again and send him an invoice for 6 hours flight plus incidentals.

BTW: Do airlines exchange rowdy passenger lists?

I had a nasty experience recently very early morning ( 6:00 am ) out of LED to FRA recently with some drunken Russians who thought that they could freely molest the female FA's. CSD stopped alcohol beverage service for whole cabin ( was for all pax not a real problem ), which triggered off some obscenities ( Luckily crew did not understand Russian). CSD went berserk when they refused to strap in during final and tried to stand up ( posed some problems ) and wanted to open overhead bins BEFORE touch down.

Needles to say that they got a real treatment in FRA and were escorted by some grim looking uniformed police. Remember FA telling me that they were connecting to JFK and LH refused to take them.

Frank