His final destination was Florida, where he was taking a job teaching soccer at an academy in Daytona, a person familiar with the matter said. federal regulations mandating that he wear a mask. 6, Irish resident Shane McInerney boarded Delta flight 45 with strong disagreements to U.S. "COVID has poured gasoline on the fire, as it were," Henderson said.A Delta passenger could face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly assaulting a crew member during an anti-mask tantrum for the record books, on an eight-hour flight from Dublin to New York City. Then, the pandemic added a whole new set of difficulties that caused the number of unruly passenger incidents to spike. Henderson said the increase before spring 2020 could have been caused by planes and airports being more crowded and the fact that people have become less willing to put up with bad behavior, including unwanted sexual advances. We were already seeing an increase in the number of unruly passengers," Clint Henderson, senior news editor at the travel news website The Points Guy, told NPR. The Federal Aviation Administration fielded 5,981 reports of unruly passengers last year, 4,290 of which were related to masking. ![]() has seen a spike in unruly passenger incidents since 2020, largely attributed to the stresses brought on by COVID-19 and new masking rules in airports and on planes. Unruly passenger incidents have increased during the pandemic Obviously unruly passengers fall into that," he said.ĭelta said it has already put 1,900 people on its own no-fly list for refusing to comply with masking requirements. "On the other hand, if you're in sales or some other position where your job depends on being able to fly every week, it could be an enormously significant punishment." "If somebody is a casual flier who only flies once or twice a year for a family vacation, then this punishment of not being able to fly would not amount to much," he said. Stanley said the government has "fought tooth and nail against basic fairness and due process protections" in such litigation, which makes him skeptical of another proposed no-fly list.Īlso, he said he worries about the disparate effects the same punishment - being prohibited from flying - could have on a slew of different alleged offenders. government on behalf of people who were put on the TSA's terrorist no-fly list without being told why they were included or how to be removed. "Our experience with government watch lists and ban lists has not been a good one." Another no-fly list raises civil liberties concerns "Generally, we think it's a bad idea," Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union, told NPR. The news, which was first reported by Reuters, rekindled the debate over creating a new national no-fly list, with critics warning that it could face some of the same pitfalls of previously established government no-fly lists, such as the one the Transportation Safety Administration maintains for suspected terrorists. "In addition to the welcome increase in enforcement and prosecutions, we are requesting you support our efforts with respect to the much-needed step of putting any person convicted of an on-board disruption on a national, comprehensive, unruly passenger "no-fly" list that would bar that person from traveling on any commercial air carrier," Bastian said in the letter shared with NPR. Attorney General Merrick Garland last week asking for the federal government's help in setting up a nationwide no-fly list for people who misbehave - sometimes violently -on planes. ![]() ![]() Now, one airline executive is renewing his call for a national unruly passenger no-fly list.Įdward Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines, sent a letter to U.S. The number of disorderly passengers on commercial airplanes has skyrocketed during the pandemic. A Delta Air Lines jet seen parking at Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA) in March 2020, in Victorville, Calif.
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