where airline passengers have disrupted flights with threatening or violent behavior,” the nation’s aviation regulator said in a news release issued July 20.of unruly passengers this year, and has collected 2,605 reports of incidents involving passengers refusing to wear masks. It initiated more than 580 investigations of those incidents. In 87 of those cases, it has begun to take civil enforcement actions against the passenger. In 2019, the agency initiated a total of 146 such probes.
“It is really anxiety-inducing to come out of this, where a lot of us haven’t been around other people, to go from that to being in a crowded airport, to lots of people touching things, getting on a flight, being very cramped together,” said Dr. Rebecca Fielding-Miller, a Maidenberg added that excessive alcohol consumption — which has increased during the pandemic — has only worsened this tension. “It may well be that there is a larger percentage of people who end up being on the plane, who may have developed that habit of alcohol use, and therefore makes it more likely that something like that may happen.”TSA has discovered more than 3,050 firearms in carry-on luggage at checkpoints this year through July 22, according to an agency spokeswoman.
Dr. Neil Parikh, a 28-year-old general surgeon who was a frequent flier during the pandemic, arrived early for his flight Thursday from Washington’s Reagan National Airport to Los Angeles. He said he wasn’t concerned about reports of unruly passengers or delays. The key, he said, was to go with the flow. He reported upon landing that everything went smoothly.
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