Budget airfares blamed for luring bogan travellers

[Jacob P]

THE rise of budget airlines has unleashed a new class of traveller on the flying public and fellow flyers and airports are not happy about it.
Airline and airport workers have noticed a rise in the number of badly behaved passengers and say budget airlines are partly to blame, prompting calls for a traveller's code of conduct.

A Brisbane Airport executive who declined to be named, said the number of drunken incidents involving "bogan" passengers had increased markedly since the cost of airfares had plummeted.



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[Stephen Brown]

Is there a way to upvote that story!!!!! YES!!!!

[Jack B]

Reminds me of Virgin Blue when they first started - most of the Shazza and Dazza's seemed to jump ship to Jetstar when that started up. Perhaps they're all at Tiger now?

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[David Knudsen]

Originally Posted by Jack Brownbill

Perhaps they're all at Tiger now?

Yep, for sure, you hear them on the radio every time Tiger cancels a flight swearing they'll never fly them again (unless they're the cheapest, of course).

[Jacob P]

So True!

[Russell D]

Flying no longer seems to be a privilege these days...

There are countless people I know who take full advantage of the low fares offered by JQ and TT just to go up to the Gold Coast or wherever, just to get drunk and what-have-you-not, and then whinge on facebook that they got told they couldn't fly and would have to take the next available flight.

[Ryan N]

Gone are the days when men wear suits and ties to board planes, and ladies wear their best evening dress. It's almost like getting on a bus thesedays. I for one have been on flights more times than on buses.