Air rage incidents are on the rise. First-class sections aren’t helping.
Flight attendants say is air rage is on the rise. “The conditions on board just lead to more potential for air rage,” says Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. Nelson ticks off the reasons: tight seating, fuller flights, alcohol consumption, fewer flight attendants, human nature. “Any time you get a whole bunch of humanity packed in together there’s opportunity for a conflict,” Nelson says. According to data from IATA, unruly passengers on planes worldwide increased 14% in 2015 over the previous year. In 2015, there were 10,854 reported cases of such incidents, or one in every 1,205 flights. In 2014, there were 9,316 incidents, or one per 1,282 flights. Alcohol or drug intoxication was reported in 23% of the cases; physical aggression was reported 11% of the time. <br/>
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Air rage incidents are on the rise. First-class sections aren’t helping.
Flight attendants say is air rage is on the rise. “The conditions on board just lead to more potential for air rage,” says Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. Nelson ticks off the reasons: tight seating, fuller flights, alcohol consumption, fewer flight attendants, human nature. “Any time you get a whole bunch of humanity packed in together there’s opportunity for a conflict,” Nelson says. According to data from IATA, unruly passengers on planes worldwide increased 14% in 2015 over the previous year. In 2015, there were 10,854 reported cases of such incidents, or one in every 1,205 flights. In 2014, there were 9,316 incidents, or one per 1,282 flights. Alcohol or drug intoxication was reported in 23% of the cases; physical aggression was reported 11% of the time. <br/>
