Levels of unrulinessIATA classifies unruly behavior incidents into four levels.
The latest available IATA data, from 2022, indicates most disruptive passenger incidents involved non-compliance, verbal abuse and intoxication.
Passengers refusing to wear masks was a contributing factor to the rise in unruly incidents during that period.
Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty ImagesOf the 5,981 unruly passenger incidents reported to the FAA in 2021, 4,290 were face mask-related.
“If you are a potentially unruly passenger, do you really not become unruly because you saw some zero tolerance unruly behavior video?” he questions.
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