Ten stag do Brits wearing wigs are hauled off easyJet ‘flight from Hell’ by police after ‘smuggling booze on board, abusing air hostesses and shouting homophobic slurs’ while flying to Tenerife

Ten single Britons wearing wigs were taken off an easyJet flight to Tenerife by police after ‘smuggling booze on board, abusing flight attendants and shouting homophobic slurs’ during the trip.

The group, consisting of at least ten people, flew from Luton to the sunny Spanish island on Wednesday before they were stopped at Tenerife airport.

Passengers on the flight were outraged by the men’s behavior, calling the four-and-a-half journey the “flight from hell.”

Duncan Young, 56, a passenger on the flight, said The independent that the captain knew that there were two parties on board the aircraft.

“(The captain) welcomed them with a warning to ‘behave’ and respect other passengers,” he told the newspaper.

A group of at least ten rowdy easyJet passengers were taken off a flight from Luton to Tenerife on Wednesday after ‘smuggling booze on board, abusing flight attendants and shouting homophobic slurs’ on the plane (file photo)

But it was too late as the couple was already drunk.

“My wife and I were sitting in the front seats with the chief steward on board and we could hear that the group of guys had smuggled alcohol on board and were going big,” Young added.

According to the irate flier, about an hour later the captain issued another warning to the rowdy passengers, claiming the plane may have to be diverted due to their behavior.

‘The chaos continued as the group swore, took photos of the crew and physically prevented them from taking their alcohol, after which two female flight attendants came to the front of the plane. They were almost in tears and visibly upset about it all,” said Young, who recounted the shocking incident.

Another meeting was then held with the stewards and the captain so that they could decide what to do about the situation that was getting out of hand on board the flight.

The rowdy passengers had their passports confiscated, but unfortunately this only made matters worse when they started hurling homophobic insults at the flight crew.

Upon landing, holidaymakers were told not to unfasten their seat belts and to remain in their seats while authorities boarded the plane before police removed at least ten passengers from the plane.

‘The head steward handed over the boy’s passports and said, ‘I want the book thrown at them.’ The captain came out and apologized to all of us, but we were all relieved that we had just made it to Tenerife,” Young said.

But Young praised the actions of easyJet staff, adding that he had seen stag and hen parties on flights before but had “never seen anything like this in my life.”

A spokesperson for easyJet told the outlet that one of its flights to Tenerife was met by police on arrival on Wednesday because a group of passengers were behaving disruptively on board.

He said: ‘EasyJet cabin crew are trained to assess and evaluate all situations and to act quickly and appropriately to ensure that the safety of the flight and other passengers is not compromised at any time.

‘Although such incidents are rare, we take them very seriously and will not tolerate abusive or threatening behavior on board.

‘The safety and well-being of passengers and crew is always easyJet’s priority.’

In recent months, Tenerife has been at the forefront of protests linked to the mass tourism the country is attracting.

Graffiti in English was left on walls and benches in and around Palm Mar in the south of Tenerife in early April, including “My misery, your paradise” and “The average salary in the Canary Islands is 1,200 euros.”

In mid-April, more than 50,000 people took to the streets of Tenerife to protest against tourism on the island, waving “you enjoy, we suffer” placards as locals battle poverty and housing shortages.

Protesters gathered in Weyler Square in Tenerife’s capital Santa Cruz, the starting point for a march on the British-popular holiday island

A woman raises her fist as she pounds through the streets in protest against tourism on the holiday islands

Residents of the Canary Islands protest as they call for a rethink of the archipelago’s current tourism policy

The campaigners claimed that the huge influx of tourists to the island is causing extensive damage to the environment, driving down wages and pushing locals out of cheap, affordable housing, forcing dozens of people to live in tents and cars.

Protesters gathered just before midday in Weyler Square in Tenerife’s capital Santa Cruz, the starting point for a march on the British-popular holiday island, with banners including one reading: ‘You enjoy it, we suffer ‘ in English.

Others said: ‘Where is the tourism money?’ and ‘Tourist moratorium now.’

They waved the flags of the Canary Islands and blew vuvuzelas to make a deafening sound.

Several activists also took part in a worrying hunger strike, with a nurse at the scene of the protest saying: ‘The data is very alarming, continuing the strike could lead to irreversible neurological damage and even death.’

The hunger strike began on April 11 outside a church in one of La Laguna’s main squares. It was announced when it started as an indefinite strike.

The activists and their supporters said they wanted regional governors to adopt a more sustainable tourism model to combat problems such as pollution, traffic congestion and a lack of affordable housing, which they have linked to mass tourism.

They also demanded the paralysis of two tourism projects, including the construction of a five-star hotel on one of Tenerife’s last unspoilt beaches.

Victor Martin, a spokesman for Canarias Se Agota, which translates into English as “Canary Islands on the Brink,” said before it began: “The hunger strike is indefinite and will continue until the two macro projects we are fighting are forever have been stopped and the regional agreement agrees in writing to start talking to us about a tourism moratorium.

“A tragedy could happen and someone could die if the government doesn’t listen.”