A British Airways flight was cancelled because its crew reportedly became too drunk on a night out in Barbados.
Flight BA254 was cancelled on Sunday after its crew partied so hard that one stewardess allegedly vomited at the bar of a £500-a-night resort.
Another flight attendant also allegedly collapsed and had to be escorted to his room following the vodka-and-beer-fuelled party.
Up to 336 passengers were stranded in Bridgetown, the Barbadian capital, because the crew was unfit to fly the next day, The Sun reported.
Figures published by Eurocontrol suggest that cancelling the flight would have cost British Airways more than £100,000.
Such costs are mainly made up of finding hotel accommodation for hundreds of people at short notice, as well as transport to get them to and from the airport.
Under company policies, BA crew are not allowed to drink alcohol in public while identifiable as a member of staff.
Yet the Barbados crew reportedly annoyed fellow resort guests to the point where people began filming them, prompting one to reportedly declare: “We’re British Airways crew, what of it?”
A British Airways spokesman said: “We expect the highest standards of our crew, and are urgently investigating this matter.”
Airline crew occasionally get themselves into trouble through excessive behaviour while abroad on duty.
In 2023 a BA pilot was fired, and his flight cancelled, after bragging to a stewardess that he had snorted cocaine off a woman’s bare breasts during a stopover in Johannesburg.
An easyJet pilot was suspended from duty in 2025 after he reportedly walked around a luxury hotel while drunk and naked.
The unnamed captain was scheduled to fly holidaymakers to the UK from Cape Verde, West Africa, around 36 hours later but was grounded by the airline.- Telegraph
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