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Drinking on Flights Prompts Police Crackdown

July 29, 2025

Holidaymakers have been warned not to indulge too much on the flight home as police ramp up breathalyser action at one UK airport.
Officers stopped drivers leaving Teesside Airport on Monday (July 28) morning in ‘Operation Take Off’, which targeted passengers who had flown into the North East airport and had struggled to control their boozing at 30,000 feet.