“Un aereo pieno di animali inglesi”: il passeggero descrive il volo horror per Ibiza

Urgh, utter trash, they should be banned from flying and breeding.

That sounds like a couple of hours of absolute hell.

Few thoughts on this as someone highly experienced with the Ibiza run –

1. Firstly to make clear I fucking despise these people and am right with the Ibienco woman quoted in the article. I can speak a bit of the lingo (enough to get by) look “Mediterranean/Arabic” so people assume I’m Spanish, and don’t wear a t-shirt/shorts until it passes about 28c, dressing in trousers/long sleeves much like the locals. I become “part of the club” in Ibiza, viewing British tourists with disgust, discussing how much we hate them with the locals, and using semi-racist terms to describe them.

2. This isn’t *that* bad. Everyone is seated, no one is throwing excrement around or being sick, they’re just excited and having a bit of fun. For guys especially, I often think this behaviour is male bravado because they’re a bit scared of flying. It’s annoying and like I say, I think they’re scum and would gladly feed them into the engines, but I’m morally in the wrong with that view. They’re not actually doing anything wrong or breaking any laws.

3. The good news is they vanish when you land. They pretty much confine themselves to their hotel, and a few bars in the “West End” (actually just one street) of San An or the Little Blackpool area of Playa Den Bossa. They rarely even go to the clubs outside of a few nights aimed more at a British crowd. Clubs are a mix of all kinds of people from all over the place, but oddly you meet very few Brits.

4. While I kind of sympathise with native Ibiencos and the *insane* cost of living there due to tourism (makes London look like Hull), this largely isn’t the type of Brits seen on this video. It’s rich people from further afield causing the problems – a lot of rich Americans, Chinese, Russians, etc who pay insane money for AirBnBs (that are technically banned in many places on the island, but are still rife) so local people cannot afford to rent anywhere. The average Brit flying Easyjet can’t afford to rent them, they’re in cheap hotels that have been around since the 70s/80s.

5. While I sympathise like I say, I’m kind of part of the problem work in the dance music industry that makes Ibiza attractive to tourists, especially young tourists. Rich young Americans go there because they know it’s an “EDM island” (to use their term). Amusingly I have overheard such Americans on “spring break” when I’ve been out there pre-season before the clubs open, discussing their disappointment that they visited only to find nothing is open yet. Other parts of their conversation revealed they were studying at Harvard – you’d think they’d have had the intelligence to check before booking flights. I’m directly contributing to the problem here by working in the industry that makes it a “destination” for rich people.

6. The other issue is how far do you go? Remove tourism, the island’s economy collapses. Everywhere is very well kept and clean. Come about 6am most mornings, the streets erupt into an almost military operation, with teams of people emptying bins, street cleaning, pressure washing pavements, watering/maintaining trees and plants, fixing/painting anything that has been damaged. It’s impressive to see, but must be extremely expensive. All funded by income from rich tourism.

7. If you’re that bothered about the behaviour on cheap flights, get on the BA “music industry express” from London City. Can be expensive some days (£250 next Friday for example) but fly on Monday or Sunday and it’s only £75. Nice little BA Cityflyer plane, I think an Embrear. Quiet, decent, rarely get total wankers on there. Well, unless you count people who work in the dance music industry, guilty as charged. I’m at least quiet though.

I’ll never fly easyJet again after an awful experience with them. We made them aware of a bunch of coked up drunk idiots on a flight once and they basically laughed and ignored us, they were swearing and using racist language in the row behind a load of kids. They let them get off the plane without any action.

We get off the flight and in the baggage reclaim they were stood near us, I asked if I could get past to get to my bag and they start squaring up to me, four blokes on one woman. They then proceeded to fight with my dad and brothers. Airport police escorted US out as if we were the problem.

Then two minutes later the same idiots got arrested for punching a taxi driver. EasyJet did nothing bar promise that they’d train their staff on what to do.

Only bonus was that a load of people recognised us on the flight home and told us that the group had been locked in the cells for three days till someone could get over to help them, and then got food poisoning at their hotel. Small sense of justice

Oh，so that’s why his mates weren’t in court to testify.

I wish the airlines would get together and start banning these people for life. I mean you have to give your passport it’s gonna be hard to get round.