A group of Irish people were stopped from taking a Sydney-bound flight in Melbourne yesterday evening.
Reports say the passengers were forced to disembark after crew members on the Jetstar flight deemed their group disruptive.
According to JOE.ie, the passengers involved were GAA players and the majority were from Michael Cusack’s Hurlers who had won the Padraig Pearses GAC 7-a-side tournament the day before.
A number of people on the plane were surprised at the decision taken to remove the group from the plane with one passenger, Josh Berg, saying: “I, seemingly along with the other passengers, had no idea why they were being kicked off.
“They weren’t making any noise or doing anything.We heard lots of arguing just outside the plane and then something like six federal police came on the plane and picked people out of the plane”.
In conversation with The Herald Sun, Jetstar said: “We don’t tolerate disruptive behaviour by passengers on our flights, so our crew made a decision with the captain that a number of passengers would not travel on one of our Melbourne to Sydney services overnight”.
