{"id":597743,"date":"2026-04-11T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597743\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:41:10","slug":"mexico-bound-flight-delayed-at-vancouver-airport-due-to-unruly-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597743\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico-bound flight delayed at Vancouver airport due to unruly passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RCMP was called to Vancouver International Airport Saturday morning after a flight bound for Mexico was delayed due to unruly passengers causing a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Airport Authority tells 1130 NewsRadio police were called about the issue aboard a WestJet flight around 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRCMP responded to reports of a group of passengers behaving in an unruly manner onboard flight WS2662 bound for Cabo San Lucas,\u201d said senior communications specialist Aline Dumalski.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey responded on scene to remove the group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to YVR\u2019s website, the plane was rescheduled to take off around 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached out to WestJet and police for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: a previous version of this story had stated the flight had been en-route when the disturbance took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The RCMP was called to Vancouver International Airport Saturday morning after a flight bound for Mexico was delayed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-597743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}