The Most Common Types of Passenger Misconduct on U.S. Airlines
Photo Credit: As packed as flights are these days, can you blame them? Flickr / Zhou Ding
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With the U.S. airline seat occupancy at a record high and the airport and flying experience being what it is these days, these incidents are only on the rise, and flight crew is the first line of defense.
Along with the FAA's relaxation of rules on use of digital devices on U.S. airlines, came a hefty and dense 222-page report that the committee which decided on these rules put together. Besides laying out the case for the new landscape, it also has two charts that the main airline lobbying organization Airlines For America supplied to the committee and make for an interesting read.
The two charts show the data on the various forms of passenger misconduct on U.S. airlines, and their frequency, at least the reported ones. The most
