Holidaymakers were left stunned when a furious pilot stormed out of the cockpit to reprimand rowdy passengers.
The pilot left his seat to give intoxicated revellers a dressing-down on the flight from Edinburgh to Ibiza last week.
He warned aggressive behaviour would not be tolerated, adding: ‘A lot of you think this is a party bus, but it is not’ – leading to a round of applause and cheers.
Footage filmed on board the aircraft shows the pilot warning passengers about their behaviour
According to The Sun, the flight was already delayed by 40 minutes late because of passengers drinking heavily.
The pilot reportedly told passengers: ‘People want a good holiday, a nice flight and not have any trouble, loud raucous behaviour and drunkenness.’
Jet 2 confirmed one man was ejected from the aircraft ‘due to his increasingly anti-social and aggressive behaviour’.
The pilot then warned if the flight had to be diverted, passengers would be charged for the inconvenience.
One witness told The Sun: ‘There were a few people who were drunk. A girl behind us could barely look straight.
‘The pilot said at the beginning, ‘A lot of you think this is a party bus, but this is not’.’
Jet 2 confirmed one man was ejected from the aircraft ‘due to his increasingly anti-social and aggressive behaviour’ (stock image)
A Jet 2 spokesman told MailOnline: ‘We can confirm the captain made the decision to offload a male passenger from our Edinburgh flight LS805 to Ibiza on Saturday 26th August.
‘This was due to his increasingly anti-social and aggressive behaviour.
‘As a family friendly airline the safety and welfare of our customers and staff is always our number one priority, as our captain demonstrated on this occasion.’
The flight from Edinburgh to Ibiza had already been delayed by some 40 minutes
As highlighted by a recent BBC Panorama documentary, the number of air passengers arrested for drunken misbehaviour on British flights or at British airports has risen by 50 per cent in the past year.
Figures obtained by Panorama from 18 out of 20 police forces with a major UK airport on their patch revealed a surge in arrests for drunken behaviour on flights or at UK airports.
There was a total of 387 in the year to February 2017, up from 255 in the period from February 2015 to 2016, according to the statistics.
A survey of 4,000 cabin crew by Unite found that one in five has been assaulted during a flight, and more than half have either experienced or witnessed verbal, sexual or physical harassment.
A House of Lords report this April recommended that restrictions on alcohol sales at airports should be applied, but the idea has been deemed too difficult to implement.