Finally...it is said that the pax in question was no 'drunken lout'.
How the hell do you know?
My suspicion is that this lout spent his 15 hour delay sucking up the free champagne in the First Class Lounge, getting more and more abusive, and more and more confident of his right to be abusive. After 15 hours of this...was he drunk? Was he tipsy?
Did his breath smell of alcohol? Yer damn right it did!
Maxalt - are you making this up or were you there? If the former, that's a pretty strong accusation that no-one else on this thread has so far come up with. If the latter, perhaps you could enlighten us as to exactly what happened in that lounge?
I'd really like to know why this passenger was dumped. If the newspaper report is accurate (unlikely, given the track record of the press) then this captain comes across as petulent and immature and that is no way to treat a paying customer. If the passenger really was a threat to the safety of the flight , the captain's action would have been amply justified.
It seems to me to be significant that three other passengers were so sure the captain was having a hissy fit rather than acting sensibly, that they wrote to complain to Virgin. And Virgin are preparing some form of redress for the passenger - which would indicate he was not a threat and perhaps the captain was being a bit of a premadonna?
Any one know what actually happened here?
SSD