Airline Passengers Behaved Better Than Ever In 2014

FAA adopted stiffer penalties for passenger disruptions in the year 2000, and airlines adopted zero-tolerance approaches to bad behavior in the years after 2001.

Source The Washington Post

Feb. 13, 2015

Remember the Knee Defender? The devious device that clips on to the airline seat in front of you to prevent that passenger from reclining and encroaching on your legroom? Thanks to some high-profile incidentsinvolving hostile passengers and flight diversions last year, there was concern that wider use of the device would usher in a new era of air rage. But new FAA data shows that the preliminary number of "unruly passenger incidents" in 2014 was the lowest since the agency began tracking those figures in 1995.

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