an Arrested In Delta Sky Club For Refusing To Leave: “I’m A Member”
I’m not sure what’s more surprising — that someone was so insistent on staying in a Delta lounge that they wouldn’t leave until the cops were called, or that the Sky Club doesn’t actually look that crowded?!
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- Police called to remove traveler from Sky Club at PBI
- The traveling public can be a pain to deal with
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Police called to remove traveler from Sky Club at PBI
This incident happened on July 5, 2025, at Delta’s Sky Club at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI). In body cam footage that has been posted online, the Delta representatives are explaining to the two police officers that the man didn’t have proper access to the lounge, but refused to leave.
So the police officers approached the man, and he was immediately hostile, telling one of the police officers “get away from me, you’re disgusting.”
The police officer explains that “you don’t have the proper identification to get into the club in the first place,” and that “you have to have that card.” He responds by asking the astonishingly stupid question of “where is that in your manual,” as if a police manual contains the Sky Club access rules. They’re simply enforcing the rules of Delta, which runs the space, and can decide who gets access.
These are some no-nonsense cops, and they explain that either he can leave right now, or he’ll be arrested for trespassing. He continues to try to stall and not answer the question of whether he’s willing to leave, so they then arrest him immediately. Go figure that once he’s in the cuffs, he immediately says “my choice was to leave,” and “I said I was going to leave.”
While this was all happening, another guest comes up to one of the police officers, and says “he’s way out of line, insulting them tremendously.”Play
The traveling public can be a pain to deal with
I don’t know what this guy’s deal was — was he drunk, was he off his medication, or was he just stubborn and not going to be told what to do by anyone? Regardless, my sympathy here is pretty low, given the horrible way he communicated with others. “Get away from me, you’re disgusting…” really?!? What a way to talk to a fellow human…
Admittedly I’m probably at the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to my appetite for confrontations or pushing my luck, but I still don’t see how this guy thought this was going to end? When the police said he can either leave voluntarily or get arrested for trespassing, how did he see that playing out, exactly? Did he think the police officers would end up saying “oh, you know, you’re totally right, we’re instead going to compel Delta to actually let you stay in the club, even though they called us to remove you?”
If there’s any silver lining, at least this is better than the situation we recently saw, where a man was arrested for stealing items from others in a Sky Club.
Bottom line
Sometimes people are confused about what it takes to enter an airport lounge. If you end up in a situation where you don’t have access to a lounge, just leave with grace, rather than having the cops called, and being dragged out in cuffs. It’s really not worth it for a $2 glass of pinot grigio, I promise.
What do you make of this Sky Club incident?
Drunken Delta passenger resists arrest, forces other passengers to deboard plane: ‘Why would you do that?’
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The most infamous airplane meltdowns
An entire Delta flight from Dallas to Boston had to exit the aircraft after a drunk passenger refused to get off the aircraft, new bodycam footage showed.
The passenger was slurring their words and struggling to stay awake as authorities repeatedly tried to get her to leave the flight, according to police bodycam video.
The woman claimed she’d had just two shots of booze before admitting she actually downed six glasses of wine while waiting for the delayed flight — as a flight attendant told cops the passenger had also consumed Prosecco and two shots of tequila on board.
“I do not trust this state and I’m trying to go home, so do not hold me here,” the woman, identified as Alicia by the Daily Mail, said in the footage from the April 14, 2024 flight.
“You need to stand up and get off the airplane, ma’am,” the officer can be heard saying in the footage.
“No, I don’t,” the disheveled woman responded with her eyes closed.
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When medical personnel also failed to convince Alicia to get moving, police directed the rest of the passengers to exit and physically removed her.
“Give me my one and only warning back,” she wailed as officers handcuffed her. “Why would you do that? Why would you do that? All I was trying to do was fly home!”
“Because you didn’t want to fly me?” she pathetically continued.
“Ma’am, I am not the airlines,” the officer replied.
Alicia spat on the ground as cops escorted her off the passenger boarding bridge.
Back in the terminal, she was confronted a chorus of disapproval from her angry fellow passengers, who yelled “boo” in her direction.
Alicia’s bad behavior didn’t end there.
After cops placed her under arrest for criminal trespassing and public intoxication, the Daily Mail reported, Alicia began flailing and throwing herself on the ground inside the airport.
She also refused to allow them to search her for weapons.
“Ma’am, I will prone you out if you don’t stop kicking,” a cop said, referring to the position in which someone is laid facedown.
Eventually, officers were able to get her inside a squad car, where Alicia can be seen in the video footage kicking her feet and hyperventilating.
“Stop going through my s–t!” she yelled at officers at one point during the ride.
“All I did was try and peacefully get out of a f–king plane,” she cried.
She can then be heard begging cops for a cigarette: “I need a cigarette…can I please just have one ciggy?”
“Can I have my vape?” she later asked, to which a cop responded, “No, you can’t have your vape.”
Ever uncooperative, Alicia clapped back at a female officer inside the station who asked her to undo her hands. “Undo my cuffs and I will,” she replied snarkily. 614
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“No! What did I even do wrong?” she wailed after cops asked her, once again, to comply.
Finally, Alicia was led into a room and laid facedown on the ground, where cops could be seen removing her jewelry.
Delta Airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A representative for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport told The Post to file a Freedom of Information request for more details about the incident.
