An easyJet passenger from Ibiza pleaded for her island to stop letting in ‘wild animals’ as she shared raucous footage of a flight from Luton to the Spanish isle.
Erika Barrachina posted footage of rowdy tourists, insisting they should not have been allowed on the plane in the first place.
‘My flight from London to Ibiza was absolutely horrible,’ she captioned her post, showing tourists banging and chanting on board the two and a half hour flight.
‘I was scared. A plane full of real English animals.’
‘Everyone standing, screaming, guys hitting each other, drinking bottles of alcohol one after the other and stopping the flight attendants from doing their job. Real hell.’
Passengers could be seen on board banging on luggage compartments above them and yelling: ‘Come on Ibiza.’
She alleged that she had seen passengers drinking before the flight took off, insisting ‘this shouldn’t be allowed’.
‘They shouldn’t let rabble like this get on a plane or sell alcohol on board. We don’t want this type of tourism in Ibiza, they should stay at home,’ she told Diario de Ibiza.
Rowdy passengers bang on seats and chant on the flight to Ibiza
It comes at a sensitive time, amid heightened backlash against ‘overtourism’ in Spain
Erika, who posts online as Kiribarrachi, told local media she had complained to the flight attendants.
She claimed the two male air stewards and an air stewardess on board had asked some passengers for their documentation but were met with shouts of ‘F*** off.’
‘I had a very bad time and the flight attendants unable to do anything because how do you control these wild animals inside a plane. There has to be a solution.’
‘I’m not afraid of flying because I’ve flown around the world but I had a panic attack because it was like being in a pub, in a nightclub, but in the air,’ she added.
‘This video is the just the end because I couldn’t film what happened during the journey,’ she said.
She said they were let off the plane after reaching Ibiza airport and identifying themselves.
It was not immediately clear if police had been waiting to board the plane when it arrived.
Commenting on the video, one user wrote: ‘As an English person I have to say there are many of us who do not condone this behaviour.
‘So much so that when I lived in Spain myself, I used to tell people I was French.’
Another, writing in Spanish, shared a similar experience: ‘My worst flight experience was the 5-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife.
‘Everyone was completely drunk and fighting with each other. The pilot threatened to land in Lanzarote. It was horrible. They shouldn’t sell alcohol on flights.’
Erika posted the footage on Saturday, a day before thousands of people marched in Canary Islands capitals as part of a new anti-mass tourism protest.
Erika claimed the two male air stewards and an air stewardess on board had asked some passengers for their documentation but were met with shouts of ‘F*** off.’
Locals in the Balearic Islands, which include Ibiza, are due to stage their protest on June 15.
Demonstrations across Spain continue to gather pace as locals decry what they call ‘overtourism’ – the catering of local industry to foreign visitors, affecting jobs and house prices, and the arrival of noisy, drunken tourists.
While the Spanish government has introduced a rent cap mechanism, only few regional governments – like that in Barcelona, where it led to slightly reduced rents – have applied it.
Government measures have not proven enough to stop protests over the past two years and experts say the situation likely won’t improve soon, with more demonstrations expected in the coming months.
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