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With the latest report of"unruly" airline passengers, total fines so far this year have topped $1 million.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’sFederal Aviation Administrationbrought forth an additional 34 civil penalties against airline passengers for “alleged unruly behavior” on flights, adding $531,545 in fines to the running total for 2021.
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That flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Richmond, Virginia, at the time.
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A $25,500 fine is also levied against a woman from a March Frontier Airlines trip who, among other allegations, locked herself in the bathroom for 30 minutes and later was caught “throwing corn nuts at passengers and shoving both her middle fingers in the flight attendant’s face when they instructed her to stop throwing the nuts.”
In February, a man on an Allegiant Air flight was “disruptively arguing with his wife” and also “arguing with flight attendants who told his son to stop vaping.” While being escorted off the plane, he yelled at the flight attendant, ‘Imagine all of you in body bags,’ the FAA said. He was fined $9,000.
Many of the complaints involved passengers adamant about not wearing masks while traveling, despite the U.S. federal transportation mask mandate. The rule, which was set to expire soon on Sept. 13, has nowbeen extended until Jan. 18, 2022.
source: people.com
