Two Estonians fined for smoking on Finnair flight into Bangkok

[webfact]

 

Two Estonian siblings were arrested and fined at Suvarnabhumi International Airport today after they were found smoking on a flight, despite cabin crew telling them that it is illegal.

 

Meanwhile, Thai police are trying to locate a woman who was caught on camera vaping during a flight from Mae Fah Luang airport.

 

After the airline touched down in Bangkok, the Finnair crew reported to Suvarnabhumi Airport officials that the two siblings had smoked in the aircraft’s bathroom during the flight to Bangkok.

 

The cabin crew told them to stop, but they smoked again on five separate occasions. Consequently, they were each fined 20,000 Baht.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-04-10

 

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[flyingtlger]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The cabin crew told them to stop, but they smoked again on five separate occasions.

What a couple of knuckle heads.

They deserve to be fined 20,000 baht....

[SAFETY FIRST]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Two Estonian siblings were arrested and fined at Suvarnabhumi International Airport today after they were found smoking on a flight

The world is going crazy, what type of person does that. 

 

Edited April 9 by SAFETY FIRST

[Celsius]

17 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The world is going crazy, what type of person does that. 

 

 

What type of person? Well, lets see.....according to outraged netizens, this type of person

 

"First time for the caveman on the plane."

[waders123]

1 hour ago, flyingtlger said:

What a couple of knuckle heads.

They deserve to be fined 20,000 baht....

They probably deserve more... According to Section 8 of the Act on Certain Offences Against Air Navigation, smoking on a plane carries penalties of imprisonment of up to one year, a fine of up to 40,000 baht, or both. If we multiply this by 5, it equals 200,000 baht and 5 years in prison for each of the two siblings.  

[Skipalongcassidy]

Let's see... I am a nicotine addict and chain smoke... I am going to be on a plane for x hours... what is the penalty for breaking the law if I smoke on the plane... 20,000 baht (apx 500 euro)... I'm ok with that so I go ahead and smoke... better than jonesing right.  And you think that only Thais are corrupt... this is what happens throughout the world when the deterrent (punishment) is not severe enough to deter this kind of behavior.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Two Estonian siblings were arrested and fined at Suvarnabhumi International Airport today after they were found smoking on a flight, despite cabin crew telling them that it is illegal.

 

Meanwhile, Thai police are trying to locate a woman who was caught on camera vaping during a flight from Mae Fah Luang airport.

People have gone mad.... 

[IAMHERE]

I've a definite feeling these two Estonian siblings do qualify as 'good in bad out' types. How the officials at the airport couldn't figure out these two are outers is beyond me.

[Andrew Dwyer]

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The world is going crazy, what type of person does that. 

 

This guy

 

 

[Gottfrid]

35 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

I've a definite feeling these two Estonian siblings do qualify as 'good in bad out' types. How the officials at the airport couldn't figure out these two are outers is beyond me.

So, that would mean they qualify as anyone?

[brianthainess]

Not that I agree with smoking on a plane but from what I have read the reason they banned it apparently had nothing to do with safety or second hand smoke, it was to save the fuel used to create 'fresh air' / extraction of 'bad air' i.e. recycling air.  just saying 

[mikebell]

Finnair is bad at everything.  They charge exorbitant prices for on-board alcohol; there are insufficient overhead lockers; now they fail FIVE times to stop two selfish <deleted> from smoking.

[Iron Tongue]

18 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Not that I agree with smoking on a plane but from what I have read the reason they banned it apparently had nothing to do with safety or second hand smoke, it was to save the fuel used to create 'fresh air' / extraction of 'bad air' i.e. recycling air.  just saying 

Air scrubbers on passenger airplanes are designed for high-volume movement of air through its various filters.  Air filters do not know what they are filtering so it wouldn't cost more if it was smoke or viruses.

[brianthainess]

Just now, Iron Tongue said:

Air scrubbers on passenger airplanes are designed for high-volume movement of air through its various filters.  Air filters do not know what they are filtering so it wouldn't cost more if it was smoke or viruses.

Ok then Steven Fry on his IQ program was lying. 

[Tropicalevo]

24 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Finnair is bad at everything.  They charge exorbitant prices for on-board alcohol; there are insufficient overhead lockers; now they fail FIVE times to stop two selfish <deleted> from smoking.

And how did the guys get the lighters through security before boarding. They are banned.

[newbee2022]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Two Estonian siblings were arrested and fined at Suvarnabhumi International Airport today after they were found smoking on a flight, despite cabin crew telling them that it is illegal.

 

Meanwhile, Thai police are trying to locate a woman who was caught on camera vaping during a flight from Mae Fah Luang airport.

 

After the airline touched down in Bangkok, the Finnair crew reported to Suvarnabhumi Airport officials that the two siblings had smoked in the aircraft’s bathroom during the flight to Bangkok.

 

The cabin crew told them to stop, but they smoked again on five separate occasions. Consequently, they were each fined 20,000 Baht.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-04-10

 

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20.000 Baht is a joke. Should be much more. And a ban of using this airline (and alliances) would be appropriate 

[ChaiyaTH]

20,000 baht only? I always thought it was hundreds of thousands of baht if not more, aside from jail, else I would have considered it myself on a 12 hour flight lol.

[Gsxrnz]

The only surprise is that lighting up on a flight is not yet considered a "hate crime". Only a matter of time... 

[Korat Kiwi]

6 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

And how did the guys get the lighters through security before boarding. They are banned.

Some lighters are banned, not all. 

 

The Bic branded lighters are allowed, heavier plastic and safer apparently.  My partner was authorised to bring in carry on luggage from NZ.... wasn't a problem. 

[Stargeezr]

There are international laws about smoking on a plane, and vaping should face the same fines and jail time,

in my opinion. How these brothers got a lesser fine and not jail time so far is less than what they should have

gotten for smoking on an international flight.

[AhFarangJa]

A work colleague of mine once told me how He had managed to smoke in the toilets of the plane without anyone knowing. He said He put His head into the toilet bowl and flushed it so the air was dragged down. I told Him He must be pretty desperate to put His head into a toilet bowl on a full flight from the Middle East.

[AjarnMartin]

2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Ok then Steven Fry on his IQ program was lying. 

STEPHEN Fry hosts IQ - I don’t know who the other guy is…. 😂

[brianthainess]

3 minutes ago, AjarnMartin said:

STEPHEN Fry hosts IQ - I don’t know who the other guy is…. 😂

Grammar Police is it.

[chickenslegs]

7 minutes ago, AjarnMartin said:

STEPHEN Fry hosts IQ - I don’t know who the other guy is…. 😂

*QI

[transam]

Should turn them around and bid them farewell back home...........🙄

 

[Digitalbanana]

There's a coincidence!

 

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

8 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The world is going crazy, what type of person does that. 

 

Nicotine addicts.

[Mark Nothing]

If free markets existed there would be smoker only airlines.

 

This will likely just be used as an excuse to treat us even more like criminals with extra xrays, patdowns and confiscations.

[AgMech Cowboy]

10 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The world is going crazy, what type of person does that. 

 

Addicted people.  (I tried to get my brother to come see me from USA. He admitted that he could go that long without a fag). So sad, but I understood. Addiction's a demanding bitch.

[CG1 Blue]

6 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

And how did the guys get the lighters through security before boarding. They are banned.

I don't think they're banned. I've never had a lighter taken from me at security, apart from once going to the PI.

Oh and another time when they saw I had two lighters in my bag, they confiscated one of them.