US: The FAA recommends a record $81,950 fine for an unruly passenger
Amid a pandemic-fueled surge in bad behavior on airplanes, the Federal Aviation Administration is pushing for an $81,950 fine, the largest the agency has ever recommended against an unruly passenger, for a woman who stands accused of hitting, spitting at, head-butting and biting flight crew members in July. “If you are on an airplane, don’t be a jerk and don’t endanger the flight crews and fellow passengers,” Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, said on “The View” Friday as he announced the fine. “If you do, you will be fined by the FAA.” The FAA is also recommending a $77,272 fine, another record, for a woman who the agency says “attempted to hug and kiss the passenger seated next to her; walked to the front of the aircraft to try to exit during flight; refused to return to her seat; and bit another passenger multiple times” on a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta in July. The FAA did not name the passengers involved in the incidents, which occurred on flights operated by American Airlines and Delta. The recommended fines telegraph that the FAA is not ready to back down on disciplining problematic passengers. Though passengers have been wreaking occasional havoc in the sky since the earliest days of air travel, the pandemic seems to have created the conditions for frequent and extreme unruliness.<br/>
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US: The FAA recommends a record $81,950 fine for an unruly passenger
Amid a pandemic-fueled surge in bad behavior on airplanes, the Federal Aviation Administration is pushing for an $81,950 fine, the largest the agency has ever recommended against an unruly passenger, for a woman who stands accused of hitting, spitting at, head-butting and biting flight crew members in July. “If you are on an airplane, don’t be a jerk and don’t endanger the flight crews and fellow passengers,” Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, said on “The View” Friday as he announced the fine. “If you do, you will be fined by the FAA.” The FAA is also recommending a $77,272 fine, another record, for a woman who the agency says “attempted to hug and kiss the passenger seated next to her; walked to the front of the aircraft to try to exit during flight; refused to return to her seat; and bit another passenger multiple times” on a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta in July. The FAA did not name the passengers involved in the incidents, which occurred on flights operated by American Airlines and Delta. The recommended fines telegraph that the FAA is not ready to back down on disciplining problematic passengers. Though passengers have been wreaking occasional havoc in the sky since the earliest days of air travel, the pandemic seems to have created the conditions for frequent and extreme unruliness.<br/>
