The vast majority of airline passengers will today welcome moves by Leeds-Bradford Airport based airline Jet2.com to bring in stronger measures to tackle rowdy behaviour on flights.

With the holiday season approaching, many families will be looking towards their annual trip, something they have perhaps saved hard for all year.

So can there be a worse possible start to a holiday than having your flight diverted due to rowdy drunks displaying disgusting behaviour on a plane.

According to Phil Ward, managing director of Jet2.com, it is a problem that has risen ‘drastically’ over the past two years.

As a result, he is teaming up with other travel operators in a bid to tackle the selfish idiots who decide to disrupt other people’s flights, and can, as was seen at the end of last month, cause massive inconvenience if a flight has to be diverted.

Jet2.com themselves has already shown its resolve, acting swiftly to ban the offender in this case for life when he forced the flight, bound for Alicante and packed with holidaymakers, to be diverted to Toulouse. He is also facing the prospect of the airline trying to recover costs of that diversion from him.

Let us hope the Government, in conjunction with airports and the police, support the airlines request for help enforcing tough new measures they want to bring in to tackle this unpleasant and unacceptable problem.

No one should be allowed to spoil and possibly endanger flights for others simply because they want to have more drinks than they can cope with.

And if they insist on such idiotic behaviour, they should be dealt with extremely severely.