Now, we get that post 9/11, airline staff need to be more vigilant with what is and isn’t allowed on a plane but, there needs to be limits. We still need to get to places.
While being kicked off a flight for being drunk and disorderly or having a rucksack full of daggers are completely legitimate reasons, we’ve discovered that some air stewards have got a bit trigger happy in the past and used odd reasons for removal.
ShortList Magazine lists 8 People Kicked Off Planes For Ridiculous Reasons, including: “crying too much, coughing and being too tall.”