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Flight attendants share 5 things you'd have to do to get kicked off your next flight

Showing signs of being intoxicated

Flight attendants share 5 things you'd have to do to get kicked off your next flight

Showing signs of being sick

Showing signs of being sick

"In today's day, there's zero tolerance for an obviously sick person — for example, someone who is vomiting — boarding a plane," a flight attendant with 30 years of experience told Business Insider.

Being aggressive with the crew

Being aggressive with the crew

"Disrespect to a crew member, whether verbal or physical," is a huge no-no, a flight attendant with 30 years of experience told Business Insider.

"If you cuss at a flight attendant, it's immediately considered a threat, and if we're still in the boarding process, there's a good chance you'll be taking the next flight," a flight attendant with three years of experience told Business Insider.

"If you were belligerent with us before we took off, you wouldn't go," Long said.

Getting physical with someone

Getting physical with someone

"If you got physical, depending on what the act was, how it happened, and who it happened to, that might divert the plane," Long said.

"But I don't make those decisions," she noted. "I convey the information to the cockpit and the chief flight attendant, and they make the decision about whether or not we're going to land and get someone off the plane."

Trying to open the plane door mid-flight

Trying to open the plane door mid-flight

"If you try to open a door mid-flight, which is impossible to do, but most people don't know that — that's happened a couple of times," Long said.

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