Feel for the drivers and CC involved - If I got a call to say there's a group of blokes brawling in the cabin, the decision is already made.
Difficulty today is that many CC are young and there is still a higher percentage of female crew so restraining p15s-head wombats such as these in the cabin is not always an option even when the CC's verbal de-escalation techniques fail.
It does reinforce the point that the role of the CC is much more than a waiter/waitress.
Yet another case of people who should be issued with fluro red passports which prohibits them boarding any aircraft. Would hope that the carrier seeks to recover costs from these idiots
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