Passenger Threatened to Rape Flight Attendant

From the NY Post we get the story of an "incident" on a flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Lahore, Pakistan in 2023. Staffing Match employee Salman Iftikhar threatened to rape flight attendant in first class blowup

Virgin Airlines apparently has flights from the UK to Pakistan.

Salman Iftikhar was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Tuesday for his vile threats directed at the cabin crew

I'm shocked. Are you shocked? OK, so no one is shocked.

This took place in First Class, so that isn't the refuge it used to be.

“Don’t tell me what to do, you racist f–king bitch. I know where you are from in Cardiff,” Iftikhar screamed during the flight, according to the Mirror.

He was apparently intoxicated, because why wouldn't you be in first class? And he was traveling with his wife while making these threats. "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

Iftikhar attempted to fight male flight attendant Tommy Merchant by grabbing him and telling him to shut up.

“Do you know who I am? F–k off. You should know who I am. Come on, you heard me. Let’s go right now,” he told Merchant.

Iftikhar escalated the already out-of-control situation when he threatened the flight crew with the exact room numbers they’d be staying at in the Avari Lahore Hotel.

The flight attendant made a statement at the sentencing.

“Never in my entire career flying for 37 years have I not been sure what to do. I have had the best career in the world for 37 years. But he has taken that away from me,” she added.

Salman Iftikhar was not arrested in Pakistan. He was arrested one year later at his "$1.2 million home in Iver, England, just outside London."

15 months for threats of terrorism? Seems like he got off light to me. Maybe it will teach him some manners. Or maybe not.

If this guy was from Florida, I call this Peak Florida. As it stands, it is just your garden-variety, British stupidity.