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Home  >  Lufthansa  >  Even In Lufthansa First Class, You Can’t Smoke Pot In The Lavatory…
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Even In Lufthansa First Class, You Can’t Smoke Pot In The Lavatory…

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 15, 2022February 15, 2022 38 Comments

Flying Lufthansa First Class affords you many privileges onboard, but does not bestow you the right to smoke pot in the spacious onboard lavatory. One passenger learned the hard way.

Dumb: Man Smokes Pot In Lufthansa First Class

My friend was flying Lufthansa First Class recently and conveyed this story to me. He’s my age and most of the time the other passengers in first class tend to be older. This time, however, he met a group of young people in the First Class Terminal in Frankfurt and they ended up sharing a van to the aircraft.

The flight began well. Great service onboard provided by a pair of lovely and attentive flight attendants. But then one of the passengers decided it was a good idea to going the lavatory to smoke marijuana.

The lavatories are spacious onboard…but marijuana has such a strong (and grotesque) odor, it is difficult to conceal. Even though the smoke alarm was not triggered, when the man stepped out of the lavatory it was very clear what he had just done.

And while first class gets you the red carpet treatment in so many ways (private car to the aircraft, spacious seat, Champagne and caviar, multi-course meal, slippers and pajamas, etc), it does not give you license to smoke onboard.

My hunch is the guy was already intoxicated from alcohol or other drugs and perhaps didn’t even know what he was doing, but intoxication is no excuse: the captain reported the incident and Los Angeles Airport Police were waiting at the gate when the 747-8 pulled into the Tom Bradley International Terminal.

The young man was led off the aircraft while other passengers were asked to remain seated onboard. It isn’t clear what happened to the passenger, a German visiting the United States.

CONCLUSION

A simple but important lesson: don’t smoke on an airplane. Even in first class, it just doesn’t fly.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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38 Comments

  1. BillnDC Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 12:59 pm

    Ha! I always thought all the gummy bears at the FCT looked like eatables 😉
    That would have been a better high. So to speak
    This does give me a chance to ask, “What’s the best thing about being high?”
    The view! 🙂
    Enjoy

  2. Christian Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    Damn hippies. Haven’t they heard of edibles?

    • Mark in Ithaca Reply
      February 15, 2022 at 1:12 pm

      I was thinking a vape pen could also have met the need without generating any actual smoke or alerting everyone on board to what he’d done.

      • Colleen Reply
        February 16, 2022 at 4:59 pm

        You are a problem solver Mark, which the world needs more of.

  3. Stuart Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    I would use the classic quote from Walter in The Big Lebowski but I try to avoid using swear words here.

  4. Dom Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 1:25 pm

    “and perhaps didn’t even know what he was doing”
    I think if this were the case he wouldn’t have gone into the bathroom. An attempt to conceal suggests a certain level of awareness…

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 15, 2022 at 2:15 pm

      Fair point.

  5. HkCaGu Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    Looks like a lifetime of expensive US embassy/consulate visits to apply for visas, if they can be approved at all.

  6. JoeMart Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 4:53 pm

    I wish I could share with you my recent experience of an entire floor at a Hyatt reeking of Marijuana for 2 consecutive days.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 15, 2022 at 5:15 pm

      You’re free to share with me. That would be grounds for checking out and disputing the charge, IMO.

      • Dave Edwards Reply
        February 15, 2022 at 7:04 pm

        Then everyone should be getting free rooms in Vegas. Every casino hotel reeks of weed, that regardless of it being legal, is illegal in public places like hotels. Obviously doesn’t stop the clowns from smoking it. Reading reviews of casino hotels show it’s a constant complaint. Perhaps it’s an opportunity to write about if what you claim is true.

        • Cody Reply
          February 16, 2022 at 8:18 am

          Drinkers are far, far worse in Las Vegas & on planes.

  7. Debit Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    He will pay a fine and he will get to do it again. Remember if you are rich you should not worry about laws. And i comptently agree with this. Fine him tens of thousands and use that money for social causes.

    Like that prince who raped a 17 year old girl, settled and is now fine. Moral of the story, rape is ok if you are rich enough to pay for it.

    Fines in the US need to be tied to net worth like in Finland. Fine the rich fu$ks til it hurts them for the same crime. Incarceration ends up being a waste and a cost to the society.

    • Nick Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 1:29 am

      I like the last point, but you sure have a severe case of wealth envy!

      • Debit Reply
        February 16, 2022 at 2:42 am

        Because wealth has been protected through legalized bribing to write laws that favor one constituency over another.

    • Grazer Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 5:11 am

      Court ordered fines in Switzerland are tied to income (or net worth if that would be more). So for excessive speeding one person might pay $2,000, another $20,000.

    • K.C. Cooper Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 3:42 pm

      There’s a good chance he will also be banned from flying with Lufthansa.

    • Eli Reply
      February 21, 2022 at 7:39 am

      There’s quite a difference between smoking pot, which is arguably a (near) victimless crime, and rape.

  8. James S Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    Stories like this are why I vote against marijuana legalization every chance I get. I honestly don’t think it’s a harmful drug at all, and I don’t see any reason to make it illegal, but as soon as it’s made legal, people start smoking it everywhere. Literally every public space in California reeks of pot and you can’t get away from it. The same hotels, bars and restaurants that so rigorously enforce rules against tobacco use seem completely incapable of applying those same rules against pot smoking. I don’t get it, and it’s why I no longer support legalization.

    • Grazer Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 5:12 am

      Smoking should still be banned on planes and public transport.

      • Cody Reply
        February 16, 2022 at 8:19 am

        Drinkers are far, far worse in Las Vegas & on planes.

    • Nicolas Farinas Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 5:49 am

      Ok turd… really good reason ya idiot

  9. Dave Reply
    February 15, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    I assume it would be a civil or maybe a trespass issue? What would LAPD arrest them for?

    • Toobis Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 6:14 pm

      Ok square explain to us how you get multiple chances to “vote against marijuana legalization every chance [you] get”

    • Brian Reply
      February 17, 2022 at 1:33 am

      As to why police would be involved, for one thing it’s illegal to smoke on an airplane. Also illegal to bring marijuana into the US, so they may have probable cause to search based on the reported odor.

  10. Jamieo Reply
    February 16, 2022 at 2:46 am

    More distressing is that the smoke alarm didn’t go off.

  11. Nicolas Farinas Reply
    February 16, 2022 at 5:48 am

    Wow.. you get paid to write these high school news articles..wtf.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 10:17 am

      Thanks for your click.

      • Colleen Reply
        February 16, 2022 at 5:08 pm

        Thank you for the article Matthew Klint.

    • Colleen Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 5:05 pm

      Wow, you write these high school comments…… for free. Who’s an idiot???

  12. James Reply
    February 16, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    Wow can you imagine how boring Matthew Klint’s life must be that he write blog posts chastising strangers he doesn’t know for enjoying a puff of smoke onboard a plane? What a stiff.

    If this was much ado about a vape pen you should print a retraction and an apology. Shame on the disgusting behavior for the flight attendants and the police officers, they should be suspended without pay for an extended period of time so that they understand the severity of their actions.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 16, 2022 at 7:45 pm

      Was that you onboard, James? What makes you think it was just a vape?

  13. Dean Salter Reply
    February 16, 2022 at 7:56 pm

    I travel with my Marijuana often. I live in Los Angeles. I used to call LAX Airport Police and check their policies. I have flown all over the US and international Ounces of Buds. Vape cartridges. Pre rolled etc. I go right to the smoking area outside at LAX International Terminal and smoke all I want prior to my flight.

  14. Simple Flying is Better Reply
    February 18, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    Well now that I know that this site is so staunchly anti-cannabis, I won’t be reading articles here anymore.

    Grotesque smell? More like a grotesquely-closed mind from you, Klint.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 18, 2022 at 11:49 pm

      If you don’t want to read my stories because you’re butt hurt over my hate of the SMELL of pot (not even pot itself), be my guest….

  15. Yusuf khan Reply
    February 19, 2022 at 2:52 am

    Article states its not known what happened to the passenger…..probably now on death row.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      February 19, 2022 at 8:36 am

      Certainly not.

  16. Odeza Reply
    February 22, 2022 at 9:34 pm

    Just gonna state the obvious… It’s illegal to smoke period on planes… Why this kid decided it was a good idea to even consider this is beyond even me… Anywho, ngl, this is why people are so against pot being legal… Morons like this special little snowflake who decided he couldn’t wait the length of his flight to get his toke on.

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