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Two Delta Air Strains flight attendants had been prohibited from working and issued fines after failing pre-flight Breathalyzer assessments in Amsterdam final week. One in all them reportedly blew seven instances over the authorized restrict for alcohol.
In keeping with trade publication One Mile At a Time, the incident occurred Friday morning when Dutch police performed routine Breathalyzer assessments on 445 airline workers at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Three of them had been cited as over the Netherlands’ authorized restrict of 0.02 for flight crew members on the job.
Two Delta Air Line attendants had been pulled from a flight in Amsterdam final week after failing Breathalyzer assessments. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto through / Getty Photographs)
Two had been the Delta flight attendants, each of whom had been slated to work on a flight to New York Metropolis’s John F. Kennedy Airport. One was discovered to have a blood alcohol content material of simply above the restrict at 0.024, and was fined 275 euros.
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Dutch police administered routine Breathalyzer assessments to 445 airline crew members at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Friday morning, and three failed. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through / Getty Photographs)
The second blew 0.143 – which is seven instances the authorized restrict for flight crews and practically double the blood alcohol content material allowed for driving within the U.S. – and was fined the utmost penalty of 1,900 euros by the authorities.
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“Delta’s alcohol policy is among the strictest in the industry and we have zero tolerance for violation,” a Delta spokesperson advised FOX Enterprise in a press release, confirming, “The employees were removed from their scheduled duties and the flight departed as scheduled.”
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The third flight crew member that failed Friday morning’s testing in Amsterdam was from a special airline. That particular person blew a 0.13, greater than six instances the authorized restrict, and was fined 1,800 euros.
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Dutch aviation rules prohibit flight crew members from consuming any alcohol inside 10 hours previous to flying, which is extra stringent than many different nations, which forbid airline crews from consuming alcohol inside eight hours forward of a flight.
