Unruly Airline Passengers

The FAA has reported a huge increase in the number of airline passenger incidents this year. Approximately 3400 incidents have been reported in the last 6-9 months. Can you imagine riding in an airplane with 185 other passengers and experiencing a violent fight two rows in front of you? You are trapped. You can’t run away and you are 2 hours from landing. You are in a very dangerous situation!

Why are we seeing this huge increase in reported incidents? Who are the people involved?

The idiot media pundits suggest it is the airlines fault. These idiots say that because the flights are full and lines are long, people are agitated and become unruly. They are also saying that alcohol may be a factor. They blame the airline agents and attendants. Perhaps the attendants are speaking a little too directly when asking a passenger for the 4th time to wear a mask.

These idiot pundits don’t report the real reason for this increase in incidents. I know why! I recently traveled from the east coast to Montana. The experience was horrible, especially at the departing airport. I witnessed a huge number of passengers using their stimulus payments to fly. These same people are not working, they are getting weekly/monthly checks to stay home. There is a rent moratorium in my local town, so these people are not paying rent. They have money and they are travelling. Sadly, some of these travelers do not know how to behave while flying. That’s a fact. At the airport, I saw very inexperienced passengers with overloaded checked bags, bags to large to secure overhead, too many bags, passengers not having the money for baggage fees. I saw one passenger trying to write a check for the $30 baggage fee and get furious with the agent when told the airline doesn’t accept checks. And I heard a lot of bad language,

I also witnessed many passengers wearing very inappropriate clothing. Much of the clothing was provocative, indecent, and revealing especially in public and around families. Frankly, many of the passengers just did not know how to behave in public. Their voices were loud and contained harsh profanity.

The problem is behavior. We now have people traveling that do not know how to behave in public. And- when asked to change their behavior or follow the current rules, they become unruly which sometimes leads to fighting. In recent months, the FAA has reported 3400 such cases. Can you imagine that? Ugh!!!