Disturbance onboard a QF flight PER-MEL this morning (Thur 19th Apr)

[markis10]

Obviously wanted PJs and a Skybed!

A PASSENGER had to be restrained on a flight from Perth to Melbourne this morning. A Qantas spokesman confirmed cabin crew restrained the male passenger on flight QF648, but passengers say they also helped out.
Australian Federal Police boarded the plane when it landed in Melbourne at 6am and removed the man.
The Qantas spokesman could not confirm why the man had to be restrained.

Read more: Passengers restrain man on Qantas flight | News.com.au
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[UP4014]

Perth to Melb, FIFO worker returning home, perhaps on something he shouldn't have been.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Sure looks like he was on something-

The Qantas spokesman could not confirm why the man had to be restrained.
But a passenger on the plane, Rob, said the man made threats to staff and the pilot.
"They brought the guy up to the front of the plane and he actually woke me up and he said ‘I’m not bothering you am I?'. He yelled out and of course everybody woke up then," Rob told Triple M.
"I said 'well yeah you are would you like to go and sit down?' Then he attacked the guy that was standing beside him and then the hostess said, 'please help please help'.
"About four or five of us jumped up and had to hold him down and put these cable ties on his hands behind his back."

Passengers restrain man on Qantas flight | News.com.au
Cheers
N'oz

 

[under the radar]

i'll reserve further comment til i get more facts....but to/from perth domestic/international sectors seem to have more 'issues' than any other port in oz...:?:

 

[mannej]

i'll reserve further comment til i get more facts....but to/from perth domestic/international sectors seem to have more 'issues' than any other port in oz...:?:

Do you have any proof to back up that statement?

 

[under the radar]

Do you have any proof to back up that statement?

first hand experiences as a F/A that has done 20yrs+ international/domestic sectors to/from perth...interesting you only target my post...not the others!!!!

 

[Stephen65]

"I was asleep and they brought the guy up to the front of the plane and he actually woke me up, and said 'I'm not bothering you am I?'," Rob told radio station Triple M.
The passenger then attacked a man standing beside him, and an air hostess shouted, 'Please help, please help," Rob said.
"About four or five of us jumped up and had to hold him down and put these cable ties behind his arms behind the back," he said.
The man had been disturbing people at the back of the plane for about an hour before he was moved to the front and restrained, Rob said.

So the J cabin is now the detention centre for misbehaving Y passengers?

Coincidentally I was in the PER QP last night around midnight catching a different flight and the QP was absolutely packed, mostly with what looked like FIFO mining workers. Didn't see anyone acting rowdy there though.

 

[markis10]

I believe Wednesday night is the fly home night!

 

[mannej]

first hand experiences as a F/A that has done 20yrs+ international/domestic sectors to/from perth...interesting you only target my post...not the others!!!!

Are you surprised that I asked for proof?

The comments before yours are targeted at the individual, yet yours is a sweeping statement about routes to and from PER without any substantial evidence in your OP.

I agree a lot of these things do possibly go unreported into the media streams, however a quick look at avherald shows that of the QF reported cases, 3/4 do not involve PER as a destination or departure point.

 

[markis10]

yours is a sweeping statement about routes to and from PER without any substantial evidence in your OP.

I agree a lot of these things do possibly go unreported into the media streams, however a quick look at avherald shows that of the QF reported cases, 3/4 do not involve PER as a destination or departure point.

Someone quoting in the context of their own experience is to be expected here, avheard is hardly an authoritative source of incidents by the way, I would recommend the ATSB safety database.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I believe Wednesday night is the fly home night!

That explains why it was so busy yesterday.. I abandonded and went and sat down by the gate.

 

[markis10]

That explains why it was so busy yesterday.. I abandonded and went and sat down by the gate.

What I used to do at MKY until the new lounge opened for the same reasons!

 

[kalboy]

Well all i can say is IF he is a FIFO worker a future travel ban is really going to affect his career. And quite deservedly.

Yes there are a lot of swings that go home on a Wednesday. Myself, i am out of here tomorrow morning to spend a week @ Mildura YAY.

 

[markis10]

Well all i can say is IF he is a FIFO worker a future travel ban is really going to affect his career. And quite deservedly.

Yes there are a lot of swings that go home on a Wednesday. Myself, i am out of here tomorrow morning to spend a week @ Mildura YAY.

I dont know how you handle it, shift work alone is bad enough without a long commute FIFO style.

 

[mannej]

Someone quoting in the context of their own experience is to be expected here, avheard is hardly an authoritative source of incidents by the way, I would recommend the ATSB safety database.

No offence, but there was no reference to his experience in the OP, so no context could be established there.

I also did point out using Avherald as a quick glance, never made any claims otherwise, it was more to highlight the subjective nature of the comments.

 

[Happy Trails]

I dont know how you handle it, shift work alone is bad enough without a long commute FIFO style.

28 weeks off each year eases the pain in my case.

 

[markis10]

No offence, but there was no reference to his experience in the OP, so no context could be established there..

Neither was there any reference in the post that mentioned FIFO worker in the first place, hence the umbridge from perceived targeting!

 

[obrienja]

I was on an AKL-MEL flight a couple of weeks ago sitting next to a gentleman "commuting" AKL-MEL-PER-KTA - he didn't seem to mind earning AUD to spend in NZ. I've had a few doing SYD-CNS that had started in KTA or similar too.

 

[ChrisFlyer]

I was almost on that flight this morning, but decided to just do PER-BNE in lieu of extra SCs to simply get to my bed faster... As another poster mentioned, the QP was full, though I did notice a few people start to get a bit rowdy, having been cut off by the bartender... their solution was to send different friends to get two drinks at a time and bring them back after the bartenders changed shifts, though I would have absolutely no clue if the passenger in question was among this group! I was glad to be in J on this flight though... wayyyyyyyyyy too many bogan-ish drunks in Y - which was made obvious by the constant swearing you could hear as they walked past to find their seats, and one of them shouting out "coughk yeah boysssssss - free business class seats", before being told by the crew to move to their assigned seats immediately or risk being removed from the flight...

For those who live in Perth or commute there often, is this common from the port for red-eye flights, or is Wednesday night simply the end of many of the FIFO workers' weeks, so they're more likely to have a few? Of course, no disrespect to anyone living in PER or WA - those behaving inappropriately were a very small percentage of the total passengers (I don't know why they weren't denied boarding though), though were behaving poorly enough to be noticed by the majority.

 

[Simo]

i'll reserve further comment til i get more facts....but to/from perth domestic/international sectors seem to have more 'issues' than any other port in oz...:?:

Huge statement...

I have done the PER flight a few times and never seen probs but have done the last QF flight to BNE to CNS and have seen a few people been told to calm down don't drink anymore and also have seen a fight in the boarding line between 2 paxs.