OldAg84
Blacklisting has been talked about for years, trouble is thats all that seems to have happened, talk.
My experience in dealing with drunks on aircraft is it's a double edged sword. If they have got to the stage where they come to notice as stroppy, and demand more drink, they get given it, in some cases making matters worse, but in others keeping them to some extend happy, but also making them more drunk.
On the other hand probably better for them to be kept 'happy' in flight then let the Old Bill deal with it on the ground.
It suprises me that so far no one has (as far as I know) used the defence that they can't have been drunk, because the crew would not have be allowed to serve them enough to get to that state.......
It has to be said that the number of calls I used to get went up after they banned smoking on aircraft.