Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Attendant Current
Communication Breakdown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Passenger Misconduct
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
This occurred during flight.  Passenger X is seated at X5. Another passenger flagged me and said that Passenger X was not wearing a mask; and that he was coughing.  Passenger X was sleeping and I roused him on the arm and gave him his mask to put on; as he had placed the mask on his armrest. He put on his mask.  But sometime shortly before arrival (maybe 30 minutes before); I found him again without a mask and tried to rouse him. But this time he was wearing huge noise cancellation headphones and would not respond to any tapping or rousing; and no response to my calling his name.  He had drank some liquor during the flight; but not enough that he could not be roused.  I believe he was ignoring me on purpose and pretending to sleep; and had put the headsets on as an excuse to not hear me. Then the Captain called me that we had to prep the cabin early due to expected turbulence before landing.We then proceeded to do prep for landing. I again attempted to rouse Passenger X as his seat was reclined.  And again; no response. I had to physically push his chair upright; as he would not respond to do it himself.  Then I tried to rouse him again; tapping him; calling his name; and telling him to put on his mask. He finally slowly came awake. I put his mask in his hand (he again had put it on his armrest) and told him repeatedly to put on his mask.  He finally complied. And as he was leaving the airplane; I saw him again take off his mask at the jetbridge.I believe Passenger X was doing everything on purpose; and that he was awake and just pretending to sleep.  He would have had to have taken copious amounts of liquor to not have been aware of me rousing him; tapping him; or calling his name.  He also had this huge headphones on.  I feel strongly concerned about the possibility that he had done this before; and likely gotten away with it too.   I am putting this on for the record; so there will be something to refer to in case he does it again.
Flight Attendant reported a passenger was non-compliant with face mask policy during flight.