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Weather or not the guy was in fact a Delta employee is anyone's guess. If he is, I guarantee he wont' be for long. More than likely as was stated already he was just some drunk dude trying to impress someone on the flight. Who knows.

As for the driving part..... I will say that the OP should have called the police, but then again, it probably wouldn't have done much good. But I have been in that situation where I called the police on someone that I knew was drunk and was going to drive. The problem is that the police have to get a good description of the guy, then go find him. And granted we're not talking about O'hare, but in BTV there are probably more fingers on my right hand than officer at that airport. So, good idea to call the police, but also a good chance he would be on the road before they could find him.

On the cell phone use, there have been plenty of tests that have been done that show that cell phones don't interfere with the aircraft. The problem is #1 you never know when some new model of phone might cause a problem, #2 the FCC frowns on this because a cell phone overhead will hit several towers at once, causing problems with the cell system, and #3 the FAA bans them as a blanket policy of transmitting and receiving devices. They have issued a waiver for WiFi internet devices, but not cell phones. So in the end, sick passenger vs cell phone use, the sick passenger will win that debate.

As to the well publicized video Butch has pointed out, it's really not an indication of anything here. When you have a company with a tens of thousands of employees, you are going to have someone (quite a few someones) who will have drinking problems. Even if it's some guy on the ramp loading bags who shows up drunk one day. It's certainly not right, but that is reality. The video doesn't mean that Delta just allows drunk employees.