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Originally Posted by Greg McDonald
Absolutely agree. I actually thought this WAS done to a certain extent by the checkin staff at the boarding gate.
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I reckon that is a great idea. What check-in staff could do is detect through behaviour whether the passenger is heavily intoxicated or not etc. but cannot and does not have the power to breath-test them - they can however contact the federal police if it is extremely obvious the pax is too drunk to fly etc. Often front line staff like check-in, airport, flight attendants are the victims of drunken pax.
I think the responsibility to RBT should fall to security officers at airports. This means it is indepedent and airlines won't be blamed for not letting passengers get onboard etc.What usually happen is that when pax are drunk before boarding, they will continue to drink inflight. These sort of problems happen more regularly than anyone would think.