Personally I've never seen CC simply accept someone who is clearly too intoxicated. Generally, crew are a pretty determined bunch who know the pit falls of carrying people who have had too much. Of course, there are people who board
having had a couple of drinks. In the eyes of the law they're intoxicated (crew can't definitively determine that unlike police) but that accounts for a huge proportion of passengers, especially on certain routes and from certain airports. I come across many older, middle class and respected passengers who were will have 2 or 3 drinks in the airport bar and officially they are intoxicated. So have we reached a point where we start profiling passengers. From my experience disruptive pax aren't always groups of young lads and girls. Most seem to be slightly older males. Getting rid of alcohol from the airport and airline experience is the only way you could get rid of the issue but let's keep it in
proportion, the overwhelming majority of people have drinks on their flights (myself included) who remain polite, respectable and well behaved.
Last edited by easyflyer83; 27th September 2015 at 01:25.