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Every day, those who choose to do so, receive an update of our previous days operations. We fly the best part of one million people every week. Our operations have been affected by crew shortages, slot restrictions, strikes, weather and several instances of passengers requiring medical attention. Not one one drunk!

PM

That's an impressive record and unique Piltdown Man.

The latest statistics reported to IATA by its member airlines point to a growing unruly passenger problem. For the period from 2007 to 2015, there were 49,084 reported cases, or one incident per 1,613 flights. But in 2015 alone, there were 10,854 instances of unruly passengers, amounting to one incident per 1,205 flights.

The type of incidents vary significantly, from low-level disobedience of crew instructions to major incidents involving aircraft diversions and passenger deplanement. Some 11% of unruly passenger reports were at level 2, which includes verbal aggression, and around 23% of cases mentioned alcohol as a factor.

And in the US.

The number of incidents involving unruly airline passengers has ballooned in 2017, leading airlines to physically restrain or remove aggressive and often drunken passengers more than ever before.
Bad behavior from passengers is cited as one of the top three safety concerns for crew members, who are increasingly responsible for de-escalating situations before they turn into one of the 444 cases when intoxicated passengers became violent.

When you cram 300 people into a narrow aluminum tube after they have fought their way through bad weather, bad traffic, and intrusive security screenings, pressurized them, fed them alcohol and added in the noise of a few screaming babies you can reasonably expect a few of them to “go nuts” every now and then. It is impossible to define a system of controls that will screen out every berserker.

People who can't handle alcohol and doing illegal drugs cause far more problems involving aggression and non-compliance than the occasional outburst or meltdown of a legitimate sufferer of a bona fide mental health problem. Challenging any authority/disregarding any rule simply because it is a rule designed for civility in public spaces or safety is also a deepening societal problem in many parts of the world including the US, so it's no surprise that the cross-section of society inside an aircraft cabin reflects it. Alcohol/drugs amplify uncivil behavior.

Perhaps he just didn't want to eat the Apples..

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Originally Posted by Fonsini (Post 10130308)

Very true. Flying has gotten much less enjoyable and far more stressful than say 20 or 25 years ago. Lets roll back the seating to where it was in 1998. Let folks check bags like they did in 1998 and simplify the security process like 1998. It has been like boiling frogs the way all has changed for the worse over the years.