…and detain violent and/or threatening passengers.
The airlines may not have control over TSA per se, but Uncle Sam certainly does, and I want to know where all those hysterical rules from 2002 went when I’m still taking off my shoes. Even charges of simple assault (spitting, e.g.) should be taken seriously, and for gods’ sake, felonious assault (female flight attendants have gone to the hospital with broken facial bones and teeth knocked out) should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law — and existing laws cover this.
Moving on. The airlines can designate no fly lists, can’t they? That is in their power. They can also confer with each other about problem-passenger behavior. There is no Constitutional “right” to fly.
Finally, go big and go public. Stop trying to pretend this isn’t happening. Make examples of the worst offenders by publicizing the charges against them, and their trials, and their punishments. Let it be known that the airlines will ban passengers who bring trouble on board. At 30,000 feet…
Do I sound angry? I certainly am. Before COVID I was already a reluctant flyer because of the airlines’ business decision to pack us in like sardines and make the whole experience a misery. (Don’t tell me to drive — the people I want so much to see are not hundreds, but thousands, of miles away. ) Now, thanks to the way the pandemic has been mishandled in so many ways by Trump & his cronies at state level, and because of the GOP / RW coddling and encouragement of those who think even masks are an infringement on the Bill of Rights and a personal insult to them, you can add fear of my fellow passengers to my reluctance to fly.
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