Two women who were filmed brawling on the floor next to the baggage reclaim in Alicante after a Ryanair flight from Newcastle say they have now made up.
Nicola Artley, 42, was seen grappling with a fellow passenger, who MailOnline can name as 33-year-old Louise Dobbs, in front of shocked onlookers.
And now a close friend of Ms Dobbs has revealed to MailOnline: ‘They spoke on the phone this morning. Everything is OK between them.’
Both women live just around the corner from each other in Middlesbrough’s Park End district, but it is thought to be a coincidence they were both on the same flight.
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Nicola Artley, 42, was filmed grappling on the floor of the Spanish airport with a fellow passenger, who MailOnline can name as 33-year-old Louise Dobbs(right)
The friend added: ‘They just want to put it behind them. It was just something which got out of hand.’
In the footage, the two women are seen yanking each other’s hair as they wrestled in front of passengers waiting for their luggage.
Ms Artley, a mother-of-three, is wearing a yellow t-shirt and Ms Dobbs a navy green one.
Ms Artley is heard screaming with her legs flailing in the air as her opponent pins her down on the airport tiles.
The brawl gets so out of control that the two women eventually have to be prised apart by a bystander.
Footage also emerged last week of Ms Artley involved in another incident on the flight itself, where she was seen throwing punches at a fellow passenger.
Witnesses say she was due to be met by police after the attack, but was apparently allowed to wander through the airport where the second incident took place.
Nicola Artley, 42,(yellow shirt) was filmed grappling on the floor of the Spanish airport with a fellow passenger, who MailOnline can name as 33-year-old Louise Dobbs
In the footage, Ms Artley(yellow shirt) and Ms Dobbs(green) yanked each other’s hair as they wrestled with one another in front of passengers waiting for their luggage
Referring to the in-flight incident, Ms Artley admitted she was ‘loud’ and had drunk beer and vodka before the flight.
But she claimed she did not instigate the trouble and that another passenger had thrown a drink over her first.
Ms Artley said she has also received a barrage of abuse online after the video was published but that it is unfair because the whole episode was not caught on camera.
Ms Artley (pictured) claimed she was acting in self-defence when she was filmed brawling in Alicante airport after a Ryanair flight
She said: ‘I apologise to anyone on that plane if I was being loud. But I wasn’t being abusive until I was attacked.
‘The video on most websites only shows what happened after I was punched and had a drink thrown over me. I was defending myself.’
She added that she takes a lot of medication, including antidepressants and sleeping tablets, which may have affected her behaviour.
‘I had been awake since 5am. I had had a drink, but all I’d had was two pints and two shots of vodka,’ she said.
Ms Artley claimed that another passenger had thrown a drink over her and hit her and insisted the viral videos merely captures her reaction.
She claimed her finger was bitten during the incident – which carried on into the airport – and as a result she was now taking antibiotics.
She added: ‘If you watch all the other videos, people are screaming and shouting at me. It was like a mob. People were cheering as I was attacked in the airport.
Fellow passenger Rachel Burns, 35, described Ms Artley as ‘intoxicated’ during the flight.
Both Ms Artley and Ms Dobbs, pictured, live just around the corner from each other in Middlesbrough
However, they were not thought to be friends and it was a coincidence they were on the flight together. Pictured: Ms Dobbs
The mother-of-three, from Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, said: ‘It was unbelievable. At the airport the police had already seen her and let her go.
‘When we got into the baggage collection area that’s when the violence started.
‘I was with my family, we’d got our bags and had been walking away and then they got stuck into it.
‘I saw her just go up to a lady who had been one of the people telling her to sit down. Then they were going at it on the floor.
‘It went on for a couple of minutes. She just seemed intoxicated. She was very, very drunk. Some man tried to pull her off, then she started again.’
Ms Burns added that the security was ‘shocking’.
‘It was an absolute shambles,’ she said. ‘She just left. She was with two friends, they seemed mortified and were crying.
In a video of the original brawl on board the flight, men and women aboard the Newcastle to Alicante Ryanair flight can be seen scrapping over the tops of seats
Arms can be seen flailing in both directions as fellow passengers attempt to stop the unseemly fracas
‘Then we left, we just needed to get the children away from it.’
She added: ‘It’s shocking that she’d even been able to get on the plane in the first place, let alone get to that point in the airport.’
Ms Burns claims the woman was drunk while they were on the plane and had been aggressive towards her fellow passengers for around an hour-and-a-half.
She claims the woman even directed her slurs at her mother, who was travelling with her, calling her an ‘old hag’.
Ms Burns, who was who was taking her flight one-way to move out to Spain with her family, said: ‘On the flight she was leathered.
‘The staff and other people on the plane kept telling her to sit down. The plane staff said they hadn’t served her alcohol.
‘She was sat two rows behind me, and she started getting really aggressive with people in front of her, f-ing and blinding and saying ‘What you looking at?’
‘Then she started fighting with the man in front, and started getting aggressive with the lady asking her to move. The plane staff couldn’t control her.
‘The people she was attacking got moved to the front of the plane.
Mother-of-three Ms Artley (left and right) claims she did not instigate the trouble and that another passenger had thrown a drink over her first
‘She called my mum an ‘old hag’ so that’s when I started shouting at her as well, saying ‘Don’t call my mum that’.’
‘It was all going on for about an hour and a half.’
A spokesman for Ryanair said: ‘The crew of this flight from Newcastle to Alicante (31 Aug) requested police assistance upon arrival after a passenger became disruptive inflight.
‘The aircraft landed normally and the passenger was met by police. We will not tolerate unruly or disruptive behaviour at any time and the safety and comfort of our customers, crew and aircraft is our number one priority.
‘This passenger has been banned from flying with Ryanair and this is now a matter for local police.
‘This is exactly why we are calling for significant changes to prohibit the sale of alcohol at airports, such as a two-drink limit per passenger and no alcohol sales before 10am.
‘It’s incumbent on the airports to introduce these preventative measures to curb excessive drinking and the problems it creates, rather than allowing passengers to drink to excess before their flights.’
Aena, the airport network to which Alicante Airport belongs, declined to comment.
Airport police and Guardia Civil were contacted for comment but have yet to respond.