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The number of times flights are having to delay and emergency land for this bs is getting out of control. Maybe it's time we hold we people financially accountable when their actions cause a change in the flight plan/time. And not just for what it costs the airline, but for what it costs the passengers who have to change plans, work, vacations etc... due to these people who don't know how to behave themselves.
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Originally Posted by bagster
They should be added to the no-fly list for 10 years, plus given a healthy fine and community service.
I think the length of being on the no-fly list should be about six months for a first offense, and then rising from there to two years. I think ten years may be cruel and unusual punishment.
I haven't flown commercially since 1999. Thank goodness I have my own airplane. No crazy passengers, no TSA, no schedules, no crammed into a flying sardine can. I come and go as I please, carry a loaded gun with no hassles, pack as much or as little baggage as I want. I feel sorry for most people who have no other realistic means other than to fly these days.
I realize that 9/11 was a big thing, but that was 15 years ago and to me convenience matters.
In the same thread about airline travel, you've invoked Stalin and goose-stepping AND downplayed 9/11. That's a shocking lack of self-awareness, even for you.
The couple in the video were having a fight and causing a disturbance. The same thing would have happened to them if they were in a local restaurant.
Going through a TSA screening (which you, as per usual here, have not experienced but have read about online) does not justify a passenger's bad behavior. Like it or not, consequences are part of life.
He and his girlfriend may have been drinking before the flight. I don't think they were in their right minds to do what they did. The man is supposedly a vice-president for Citibank, this is a career killer to have your name splashed all over the papers and on TV.
Rumor mill on Flyer Talk says flight attendant gossip is that the passengers were drunk at the gate, the FAs wanted to deny boarding but were overruled by a red coat (Delta on ground customer service supervisor). I guess at that point, the FAs decided they could try to make it work rather than having the pilot in charge, who has ultimate control over who gets on the plane, overrule the red coat.
The number of times flights are having to delay and emergency land for this bs is getting out of control. Maybe it's time we hold we people financially accountable when their actions cause a change in the flight plan/time. And not just for what it costs the airline, but for what it costs the passengers who have to change plans, work, vacations etc... due to these people who don't know how to behave themselves.
Hardly.
There's just nothing else to fill the 24/7 news-cycle to which some people are perversely glued.
People perpetually fail to understand that social media and the dozens of 'news' (read: infotainment) channels simply report on myriad things about which we rrely heard before. The same phenomenon leads the low-information types to think that violence is out of control - but the '10s has the lowest violent crime rate of any decade since the '50s.
You actually have to look at the data, not make judgments by what you happen to see/hear being shouted from every television past which you walk.
the number of times flights are having to delay and emergency land for this bs is getting out of control. Maybe it's time we hold we people financially accountable when their actions cause a change in the flight plan/time. And not just for what it costs the airline, but for what it costs the passengers who have to change plans, work, vacations etc... Due to these people who don't know how to behave themselves.
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