US airlines attempt crackdown on air rage incidents – but why are they so common?
as it the too-big carry-on bag? Or perhaps a rise in passenger intoxication? Or the “gate lice”? US airlines are attempting a crackdown on passengers’ bad behaviour without anyone being exactly sure what led to the increase in problematic travellers. Last week saw Svetlana Dali, a US resident travelling on a Russian passport, appearing in court in Manhattan after stowing away on a Delta Air Lines flight to Paris. Dali had slipped through security, boarded the plane and was only apprehended when a flight attendant allegedly saw her going between bathrooms as the plane came in to land. She later, allegedly, resisted efforts by French authorities efforts to return her to the US. Dali’s case, while unique in its security failures, is not when it comes to generalized bad airline travel behaviour. Out of the ordinary travel attitudes came to broader attention during the pandemic when airlines, desperate for revenue, dropped prices. Three years on, and with air travel prices high and planes packed – Transportation Security Administration data says 3.09m passengers were checked in on 1 December, a new record and only the second time that number has surpassed 3m – the phenomenon has not significantly subsided. Among the highlights: a fight over a blanket on an Air Canada flight to Montreal from Morocco that was later cancelled; a man on a United Airlines flight from Austin to Los Angeles had to be restrained after he began violently kicking a seat and smashing a plastic tray table; a woman, Tiffany Gomas, who yelled “that motherfucker back there is not real!” during an altercation on an American Airlines flight; and a woman who threatened to pee in the middle of the aisle because a flight attendant told her she needed to wait to use the lavatory.<br/>
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US airlines attempt crackdown on air rage incidents – but why are they so common?
as it the too-big carry-on bag? Or perhaps a rise in passenger intoxication? Or the “gate lice”? US airlines are attempting a crackdown on passengers’ bad behaviour without anyone being exactly sure what led to the increase in problematic travellers. Last week saw Svetlana Dali, a US resident travelling on a Russian passport, appearing in court in Manhattan after stowing away on a Delta Air Lines flight to Paris. Dali had slipped through security, boarded the plane and was only apprehended when a flight attendant allegedly saw her going between bathrooms as the plane came in to land. She later, allegedly, resisted efforts by French authorities efforts to return her to the US. Dali’s case, while unique in its security failures, is not when it comes to generalized bad airline travel behaviour. Out of the ordinary travel attitudes came to broader attention during the pandemic when airlines, desperate for revenue, dropped prices. Three years on, and with air travel prices high and planes packed – Transportation Security Administration data says 3.09m passengers were checked in on 1 December, a new record and only the second time that number has surpassed 3m – the phenomenon has not significantly subsided. Among the highlights: a fight over a blanket on an Air Canada flight to Montreal from Morocco that was later cancelled; a man on a United Airlines flight from Austin to Los Angeles had to be restrained after he began violently kicking a seat and smashing a plastic tray table; a woman, Tiffany Gomas, who yelled “that motherfucker back there is not real!” during an altercation on an American Airlines flight; and a woman who threatened to pee in the middle of the aisle because a flight attendant told her she needed to wait to use the lavatory.<br/>
