The FAA Issues Largest-Ever Fines for Two Unruly Passengers
byDaniel McCarthy/
联邦航空管理局(FAA)周五宣布,它提出了有史以来两项最高罚款,以实现不良乘客的行为,并在FAA的两年罚款两年后创造了另一个记录。
首先是FAA在7月从达拉斯飞往夏洛特的美国航空航班上向乘客发出的罚款$ 81,950。
According to the FAA, that passenger threatened to hurt a flight attendant that offered help to a passenger who fell into the aisle. The passenger then pushed the flight attendant aside and tried to open the cabin door, then hit one of the flight attendants trying to restrain her, and then finally, when she was restrained, “she spits at, head-butted, and tried to kick the crew and other passengers.”
The second is a $77,272 fine for a passenger on another July flight, this one on Delta Air Lines from Las Vegas to Atlanta.
根据美国联邦航空局(FAA)的说法,那位乘客“试图拥抱和亲吻坐在她旁边的乘客”,然后走到飞机前面以退出机舱门。然后,她拒绝返回座位,多次咬另一名乘客,然后被机组人员束缚。
While both of those incidents are extreme, unruly passengers are no longer a rare occurrence for flight crews in the U.S. and elsewhere. Just since Jan. 1, 2022, the FAA has proposed $2 million in fines for unruly passengers.
And, in 2021 alone, FAA fines exceeded more than $1 million across 3,889-plus incidents in the sky. About 75% of those incidents came from passengers refusing to comply with the federal facemask mandate.
The FAA has adopted a “Zero Tolerance” policy against unruly passengers since the trend started in 2020. According to the FAA, that policy, and the campaign that came with it, decreased the rate of unruly incidents by 60%, but the two incidents highlighted this week show that it is still an issue for flight crews around the country.
Aside from fines, the FAA and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have also同时致力于踢不守规矩的乘客the PreCheck program.
“If you act out of line, you will wait in line,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said. “Our partnership aims to promote safe and responsible passenger behavior. One unruly incident is one too many.”
The statement said that the FAA, which has the responsibility to charge and fine passengers who misbehave in the air, will now start sharing the names and information of those passengers with the TSA, which will then decide whether or not to remove PreCheck eligibility.