02-11-2022, 01:14 PM
(02-11-2022, 12:43 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Every single one of them makes news now, is why. One drunk in Idaho or two people fighting in New Mexico would never have been news here in Ohio in the past.
In 2019 there were 176,000 commercial flights per DAY in the US. So even if your hyperbole of "every day" was true, that's still an absolutely miniscule percentage.
Why did you go to the trouble to learn the number of flights per day but refuse to educate yourself on the increase in problems with passengers? What was the point of that? Just a simple Google search proves that it is a real problem and not just a matter of them being more publicized.
Unruly passenger incidents on the increase | Airlines. (iata.org)
Airlines are reporting a significant rise in unruly and disruptive passenger incidents.
In 2020, the rate of incidents doubled, and that trend is continuing in 2021. In an informal survey of IATA’s Cabin Operations Safety Technical Group, one member airline reported over 1,000 incidents of non-compliance in a single week. Another calculated a 55% increase in unruly passenger incidents based on the numbers carried.
In the United States, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) had more than 4,600 incident reports between January and early October 2021. Some 849 of these reports have been investigated versus a yearly average of 142 over the last decade.
