Here’s How Much A JetBlue Passenger Was Fined For Putting His Head Up A Flight Attendant’s Skirt - Forbes

Being a flight attendant has become an increasingly difficult and sometimes degrading and dangerous profession. In the past year, there’s been a sharp uptick in the number of air rage incidents on flights where flight attendants have been assaulted or threatened.

Last October, a Delta passenger punched a flight attendant in the face during a flight from Miami to Atlanta. And in May, a Southwest passenger punched out a flight attendant’s teeth on a flight from Sacramento to San Diego.

Despite a string of five-figure fines and some arrests, episodes of disruptive behavior have continued unabated. Earlier this month, the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) asked airports to coordinate more closely with local law enforcement to prosecute the most egregious cases, as the agency does not have criminal prosecutorial authority. It can, however, propose civil penalties against offenders.

So far in 2021, the FAA has proposed over $1 million in fines against airline passengers for behavior ranging from unruly to violent, according to a statement from the agency that reads like a police blotter.

On a JetBlue Airways flight from New York City to Orlando last May, a passenger threw his carry-on luggage at other passengers then lay down in the aisle and refused to get up. After the passenger grabbed a flight attendant by the ankles and put his head up her skirt, he was placed in flex cuffs and the flight made an emergency landing in Richmond, Virginia. That passenger now faces the FAA’s proposed fine of $45,000.

On another JetBlue flight last May, from New York City to San Francisco, a passenger refused to wear a face mask on the flight, then allegedly made “non-consensual physical contact with another passenger” and “stabbing gestures” toward others. The flight crew confiscated a plastic bag of “what appeared to be cocaine,” (which, presumably, the TSA missed at the airport security checkpoint). When the passenger became increasingly agitated, flight crew members felt it necessary to “equipped themselves with flex cuffs and ice mallets.” The flight diverted to Minneapolis, where law enforcement removed the passenger from the aircraft. He faces an FAA fine of $42,000.

In January, a passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight from Atlanta to New York City physically assaulted two flight attendants and threatened to kill one of them in an attempt to gain entry to the flight deck. Law enforcement met the passenger after deplaning and he now faces a fine of $30,000.

A passenger on a JetBlue flight from Boston to Orlando in April refused to comply with the mask mandate and shouted obscenities at the flight crew. On her way to the lavatory, she intentionally bumped into, then punched, a seated passenger. Law enforcement met the plane at the gate and the offending passenger now faces a fine of $29,000.

Since January 1 of this year, the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has received approximately 3,889 reports of unruly behavior by airline passengers. Roughly three-quarters of the reports involve passengers refusing to comply with the federal face mask mandate.

Alcohol is another contributing factor, according to FAA investigations. In its letter to airports this month, the agency requested that airport concessionaires stop offering alcohol “to go,” which has led to some passengers becoming inebriated before or during the boarding process. FAA regulations specifically prohibit the consumption of alcohol aboard an aircraft that is not served by the airline.

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