A WOMAN who was kicked off a Jet2 flight was heading to Turkey for a £3,000 teeth whitening treatment, it is understood.
Rowdy Catherine Bush squared up to cabin crew and allegedly tried to open the plane doors mid-air on her flight from Manchester to Antalya on Monday.
Now, Jet2 have slapped the nightmare passenger with a £5,000 bill – and have banned her from using the airline for life.
It has since been revealed that Catherine was on the way to Turkey for a £3,000 teeth whitening treatment.
A source told MailOnline: “I was with Catherine in the pub at the weekend.
“She told me she was excited about going to Turkey.
“She said that she had scraped together £3,000 from her savings for cosmetic surgery on her teeth.
“She was going to have them whitened.”
Catherine had caused a commotion thousands of feet in the air shortly after boarding the packed flight on Monday.
Shocking footage shows the blonde, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, pacing up and down the cabin before shouting at crew members.
She is heard repeatedly bellowing: “What have I done wrong on this flight?”
The woman then continues to yell at Jet2 team members and squares up to a stewardess trying to calm the situation.
A member of the crew is seen in the footage telling her to “stand back” to which the irate woman replies: “I am back. Sort your head out you.”
The airline worker then tells her: “You are not doing yourself any favours.”
But the unruly passenger hit back: “You’re not doing yourself any favours either.
“So what have I done? Don’t touch me, don’t f***ing touch me!”
Fellow passenger Samantha Fearon said Catherine tried to get off the plane in her mid-air row.
She told Yorkshire Live: “She was ragging at the door, saying ‘get me off this f***ing plane – let me off now’.
“It was just so shocking.”
Appalled flyers watched the row unfold just inches from them, with one man seen in the clip shaking his head in disbelief.
The plane departed from Manchester Airport at around 9.15am on Monday for the four-and-a-half-hour flight to Antalya.
But pilots were forced to make an unplanned diversion to Vienna after the woman began her rampage.
Airline Jet2 have since issued a demand for payment and banned her for life for what they described as “a catalogue of aggressive, abusive and dangerous behaviour”.
Managing director of Jet2.com Phil Ward said: “Ms Bush displayed a continued pattern of appalling behaviour on the flight and she must now face up to the consequences of her actions.
“We have always made it abundantly clear that, as a family friendly airline, we take a zero-tolerance approach to such behaviour and that we will vigorously pursue any costs incurred as a result of such an incident.
“Although such incidents are very rare, it is unacceptable that our customers and crew have to experience it.
“We would like to apologise to anyone who had to experience this behaviour and we would like to commend our highly-trained crew for their exceptional handling of this difficult situation.”
A spokesman for Jet2.com the firm will “fully support” authorities with any subsequent investigation.
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They added: “As a result of her actions, the crew were left with no choice but to divert the aircraft, which was flying from Manchester to Antalya, to Vienna so that Austrian police could offload Ms Bush.
“This led to a short delay of approximately one hour and the flight continued safely to destination.”
