Last week a female passenger on a flight from Brussels to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic asked the stewardess to smoke a cigarette, the stewardess told that smoking was only foreseen in the designated areas in the rear of the aircraft.
Unfortunately for the lady all the smoking-seats where taken, she decided to smoke her cigarette on her own non-smoking seat! When the flight arrived in Punta Cana, the lady was awaited by some policemen. She had to stay in prison for about 30 hours for not complying to the aviation rules.
According to 'Het Laatste Nieuws' the lady has filed a law suit against Sobelair for 'discomfort' whilst on vacation.
This makes me happy, she doesn't comply with aviation rules bla bla and now she will file a law suit against Sobelair Some people will never understand
I wouldn't mind that she is banned on all SLR flts as from now.
Why doesn't SLR file a law suit, because she did not follow the rules and she discomforted all other passengers.
I friend of mine is a steward and told me that this happens frequently on long haul flts. Lots of smoking pax take a non-smoking seat, but keep on walking thru the aisle and galleys to get their little smoke.
I knew that Thomas Cook had smoking areas on several aircrafts (A320) but I didn't knew that Sobelair had that.
Have all Sobelair flights smoking areas or just the long haul flights??
If I'm not wrong, last year a United Airlines B777 had to make an emergency landing because there was a man who smoked in the toilets.
That litlle bit of nicotine was very expensive for him, because he had to pay for the landing (a big B777 with full load):lol:
Avro wrote:I knew that Thomas Cook had smoking areas on several aircrafts (A320) but I didn't knew that Sobelair had that.
Have all Sobelair flights smoking areas or just the long haul flights??
When I flew SLR to Cancun three years ago, they had one smoking row (out of 10) in Comfort class and a few rows in economy class on their B767. On the return flight there was only one person smoking in that single smoking row, but it discomforted many people in other rows.
I think that on short-haul flights SLR prohibits smoking.
On the return flight there was only one person smoking in that single smoking row, but it discomforted many people in other rows.
You're right it's impossible to create smoking areas in airplanes because there is no real partition and the smoke is distributed through the plane with the air conditioning system.
just spent 4 hours in the company of many non-smokers and a few smokers on a Sobelair flight from Tenerife, I will not be flying with these neanderthals again since the whole aircraft stank of old smoke and my lungs now stink of new smoke.
Even our national railway company prohibits smoking in all trains from today on!! So why can't all airlines do that.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to create a new company "SMOKE AIR" where only smoking people would be going to! That'll work in the countries where many people do smoke.
I thought smoking was already banned in aviation?
At least all flights I took last years were all non smoking flights and I assumed this was a world wide regulation.
So it's not, hmmmm for me all flights can be non smoking starting from today.
A318 wrote:I thought smoking was already banned in aviation?
Well, as you can see there are still some charter companies who allow this in some circumstances (spelling?). But the majority of airlines don't allow it anymore.
I used to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes per day (40 cigarettes per day), about 4 years ago I read a 'stop-smoking'-book and stopped from that day on. I must admit that I smoked 2 or 3 cigars with New Year and X-mas but since 4 year I didn't touched 1 cigarette. I thank myself for that!
Well I used to smoke also and in vacations I still buy a small pack because I like it sitting on a terrace with a beer and smoke
But I never liked smoking somewhere inside like a car, train or airplane so that's why I prefer to see there is no smoking in those public transportation verhicles. Since today smoking is also not allowed anymore in trains here in Holland and on covered platforms!
luchtzak wrote:I used to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes per day (40 cigarettes per day), about 4 years ago I read a 'stop-smoking'-book and stopped from that day on. I must admit that I smoked 2 or 3 cigars with New Year and X-mas but since 4 year I didn't touched 1 cigarette. I thank myself for that!
I never touched one cigarette, and don't intend to do so. Not only for my health, but when I calculate how much it costs, I can do a big spotterstrip every year for free!
On the return flight there was only one person smoking in that single smoking row, but it discomforted many people in other rows.
You're right it's impossible to create smoking areas in airplanes because there is no real partition and the smoke is distributed through the plane with the air conditioning system.
Chris
Hi everybody,
I cannot stand smoke... and here is a good idea for a smoking area
We do feature a smoking section on this flight; if you must smoke, contact a member of the light crew and we will escort you to the wing of the airplane.
I suggest that smoking be allowed only on open cockpit aircraft. Fresh air will be available, and entertainment would be provided by watching the smoker trying to light up in the wind. Not sure how smouldering butts would fare with canvas and wood though.
Some people will never understand 
