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Two Delta Air Lines flight attendants have been banned from work and fined after failing a pre-flight breathalyzer test in Amsterdam last week. It is reported that one of them exceeded the legal limit of alcohol seven times.
According to industry publication One Mile At a Time, the incident occurred on Friday morning when Dutch police conducted a routine breathalyzer test on the 445 airline employees at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Three of these were cited as exceeding the Dutch legal limit of 0.02 for crew members in the workplace.
Last week, two Delta Air Lines employees were removed from a flight in Amsterdam after they failed a breathalyzer test. (Nicolas Economou/via NurPhoto/Getty Images)
The two were Delta flight attendants, both of whom were scheduled to work on the flight to New York John F. Kennedy Airport. One had a blood alcohol content of just over 0.024 alcohol and was fined €275.
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Dutch police administered a routine breathalyzer test on 445 airline crew members at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Friday morning, and three failed. (via Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
The second was over 0.143 – seven times the legal limit for flight crew and almost twice the legal blood alcohol level for driving in the US – and was fined the maximum €1,900 by the authorities.
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“Delta’s alcohol policy is one of the strictest in the industry and we do not tolerate violations,” said a Delta spokesperson. FOX Business in a statement confirming: “Employees were removed from their scheduled duties and the flight departed as scheduled.”
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| DAL | DELTA AIR LINES INC. | 63.41 | -0.41 |
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The third flight crew member who failed the test on Friday morning in Amsterdam was from another airline. The man exceeded 0.13, more than six times the legal limit, and was fined €1,800.
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Dutch aviation regulations prohibit flight crew members from consuming any alcohol 10 hours before a flight, which is stricter than many other countries, which prohibit airline crews from drinking alcohol 8 hours before a flight.
