If you ever wanted to discover the ramifications of starting a brawl mid-air and diverting a flight without going through the effort of, you know, doing something immensely silly, you can now rest easy.
The outcome is kinda obvious: an insta-ban from Qantas and Jetstar, and tens of thousands of dollars of likely compensation costs. We know this ’cause those were the immediate punishments handed to the five Aussie men and one Kiwi involved in Wednesday’s aeronautical biff.
Their reasoning for the tussle? They were all drunk. Bulletproof, that one.
The flight did eventually end up in Thailand – 2 hours later than it should have – but the six fellas only left Bali for Australia overnight. They were escorted back here by Jetstar security, which really seems like the adult version of having a teacher walk you to the principal’s office.
We imagine that if the AFP did have to give a statement, it’d just be a series of low, defeated “mate”-s followed by incredulous head shakes.
