Buttigieg says 'we need to take a look at' a no-fly list for unruly passengers

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday that "we need to take a look at" placing unruly passengers on a federal no-fly list as pressure mounts on the Biden administration to continue to address rising violence on airplanes. "I think we need to take a look at it. Look, the airlines are often doing their own internal no-fly list. Some of them have spoken about maybe coordinating on that, and we're looking at these policy recommendations as well," Buttigieg said. This comes as Delta CEO Ed Bastian sent a letter last week to US Attorney General Merrick Garland reiterating his call for the Justice Department to prosecute unruly passengers and place them on a no-fly list. Buttigieg has previously expressed openness to a federal no-fly list for violent airplane passengers, telling CNN in late October that it "should be on the table." The existing federal no-fly list is used to prevent terrorism. Asked Monday about the challenges of potentially implementing a federal no-fly list for unruly passengers, Buttigieg said, "Obviously, there are enormous implications in terms of civil liberties, in terms of how you administer something like that. I mean even when it was over terrorism, it was not a simple thing to set up. "So none of these things can be done lightly. But I think all of these things need to be looked at, at a moment like this," he added.<br/>