CN Kiwi Olympians turn charter flight into 'party bus'

Kiwi Olympians have reportedly turned an Air New Zealand charter flight back from Tokyo into an unruly "party bus".

Athletes on board were drinking excessively while singing and dancing in the aisles to music played from personal speakers, a witness tells Stuff.

The flight reportedly carried rugby players, swimmers, footballers, trampolinists, surfers, and swimmers who had all completed their respective events.


The anonymous witness claims the "riotous drunken action" forced the plane's captain to intervene, making announcements over the public address system to attempt to quell their behaviour.

Some passengers also shunned COVID-19 protocols, "removing their face masks and throwing them at the crew", the witness tells Stuff.

An NZ official aboard has played down the incident, calling the alleged partying "innocent enough".


"It was all very jovial and light-hearted," the official tells Stuff. "All they wanted to do was have a beer and sing."

The alleged "party cabins" were in stark contrast to the "very quiet" athletes in business class, which reportedly included the gold medal-winning Black Ferns Sevens and members of the swimming team.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee says it's aware some of their athletes had "celebrated" after "years of training, and extended, Olympic campaign" and no complaint had been received from Air New Zealand.

Air New Zealand says it had spoken to members of the operating crew on board and were not aware of any complaints.

 
Haha. We did it too.

Japan Airlines requests Aussie athletes be supervised by a babysitter on each flight home​

Japan Airlines has issued new rules for Aussie Olympians after alcohol-fuelled “undesirable behaviour” by our rugby and football teams.

The airline flying athletes home from Tokyo has issued a scathing list of requests to the Australian Olympic Committee after a wild flight of alcohol-fuelled antics last week.

Among the demands, which came after the rugby and football teams caused chaos on the flight to Sydney on Friday, was a request that a chaperone supervise athletes on each flight.
Japan Airlines asked that the AOC hand over the name of a chauffer ahead of the flight so they could act as a middleman between airline crew and athletes.
“We will ask this person to assist the crew in maintaining discipline in the cabin,” the airline said.

Additionally, the airline said athletes whose “undesirable behaviour” persisted, would be handed over to the Australian Federal Police on arrival.

The airline reminded the AOC that athletes were required to “behave on board in line with normal societal expectations” and show “respect to crew and other passengers”.

They were also banned from consuming alcohol purchased at duty-free stores and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol while on board.

“Being drunk affects other passengers and interferes with the crew’s ability to do their job,” the airline said.

“Passengers must wear masks at all times when not eating/drinking. This is a requirement of JAL and the Australian government.”

Refusing the instructions of crew was a violation of Japanese aviation law, the airline added.

Crew would also be reserving their right to refuse alcohol to athletes who were drunk, or showing “undesirable behaviour”.

Japan Airlines also said it would not hesitate in introducing further measures to maintain flight safety if the poor behaviour continued.

The AOC confirmed on Tuesday an investigation had been launched into what happened on the July 30 flight, which prompted the airline’s complaint.

AOC chief executive Matt Carroll said while there were multiple sports sharing the flight, the rugby and football teams had taken full responsibility.

“It’s extremely disappointing but both rugby and football have told me that such behaviour is certainly not acceptable within their sports and have sincerely apologised to the Australian Olympic Team,” Mr Carroll said.

The wild flight came after reports of raucous partying from the Australian men’s rowing and rugby teams over two nights in the Olympic Village.

 
The flight reportedly carried rugby players, swimmers, footballers, trampolinists, surfers, and swimmers
Sounds like an amazing party to me.
 
Athletes on board were drinking excessively while singing and dancing in the aisles to music played from personal speakers, a witness tells Stuff.
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Fuck's sake, let the winners have fun with their victory lap.
 
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If I had the body of a well tuned fuck machine and was out with the boys on the greatest peak of my entire athletic career on a plane with some hot flight attendants; I'd probably be rowdy as well.
 
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