Airline industry union leaders call for no-fly list for unruly passengers

Airline worker advocates are encouraging the creation of government and private no-fly lists for unruly passengers amid an increase in violence against flight crew and staff. Labor leaders told a House Homeland Security subcommittee on transportation this week that it wants the federal government to take additional measures to protect workers as incidents involving disruptive passengers continue to rise during the course of the pandemic. They suggested the TSA keep a no-fly list of individuals convicted of crimes aboard airplanes or be fined by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), flight attendant and transport worker union leaders said. ADVERTISEMENT "If there is not a no-fly list … people are going to continue to assault plane crews and gate agents," said Transport Workers Union of America president John Samuelsen. The most recent notable airline incident came last weekend when a Southwest Airlines agent was hospitalized after she was assaulted by a passenger. The airline industry has been warning of an unprecedented spike in unruly passengers since February. In a normal year, the FAA would see about 100 to 150 cases of unruly passengers per year but in May, it reported upward of 1,300. According to data released by the FAA on Tuesday,… Read full this story

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