RIM Staff Fined $70,000 Following Drunken Antics on Flight

[enkichild]

"Our company is going down, and we're taking you with us!"

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Flight attendants should do (and should have done) a better job of monitoring how much alcohol a passenger has consumed. Why blame RIM? I don't go to bars that have the attitude of making money by being "sweet" to customers so they'll buy more alcohol. I go to the ones that care about their customers and count their drinks.

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]shqtth[/nom]How did they get that drunk?Flight attendants shouldn't serve customer when they become too drunk. THey need to be more smart for the security and safety of the air plane and its pasengers.I remember being on a flight, and the girl behind me was plastered, and they kept serving her. It wasn't until that the guy next to her complained that they stopped serving her (the guy got a new seat). Sometimes I don't htink the servers are being responsable.[/citation]
Simple; they got on the plane after staying in the first class lounge and drinkink for the previous couple of hours. no mystery there.

 

[Guest]

If the TSA is so damned keen on increasing airline safety, they can throw away the sub-millimeter porn generators and buy breathalyzers instead. B.A> 0.05 or greater, you don't fly.

Far more flights are diverted for drunken entitlement-children than terrorist threats.

 

[hetneo]

Why is it important that they are RIM employees?

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]Kato123[/nom]Flying on a regular basis from North America to South East Asia in Business Class, I am always stunned about the carefree attitude of the flight attendents to continue giving out alcohol to already intoxicated individuals. Why not just stop serving alcohol before it is too late?![/citation]

because as long as they dont try to take the plane down they if better to have people buzzed than sobber. you are in a situation where one panicy person could incite mass terror, and really threaten the plane

[citation][nom]drunkAndDisorderly[/nom]I doubt the $70k even paid for the fuel and jet time of the plane turning around. Not to mention the delay to the 2-300 passengers. Maybe the passengers should sue the guys, too. Either for lost vacation time or for company time.[/citation]

the delay of the people doesnt matter to airports.
so long as they werent half way out on this trip, costs on fule were most likely minimal.

 

[eddieroolz]

Seems a bit exaggerated, though either way future doesn't look bright for these executives.

 

[tokencode]

Hey if your job was convincing people to buy RIM products, you'd probably want to drink yourself into a coma too.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]notty22[/nom]They both probably popped some benzo's , figuring they would eventually sleep through 80% of the flight. Except, mixed with booze, it often brings out the ugly drunk in people very easy, and they don't even remember being arezwholes.[/citation]
Quite plausible. Still doesn't excuse anything they did though, so they're still boned.