10 airline passengers accused of unruly behavior fined more than $225K – WSB-TV

Officials said the woman “sat in a seat, held onto the armrest, shouted loudly and aggressively, and used derogatory language and obscene gestures” toward a crew member before police met her at the gate.

A man was fined nearly $27,000 after being accused of trying to get into the cockpit of a Southwest Airlines flight from New York City to Chicago and later punching a flight attendant hard enough that the attended required medical attention.

4 Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Los Angeles, was fined $20,000 after officials said he yelled at flight attendants as the plane taxied from the gate, refused to wear his seatbelt while the “fasten seatbelt” sign was on and threatened a flight attendant.

Another man, who was on a Nov.

A woman accused of elbowing and kicking a flight attendant as he was picking up trash on a March 28 Southwest Airlines flight from New Orleans to Baltimore was fined $24,000.

Officials said another woman who refused to wear a face mask on a March 11 American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Aspen, Colorado, was fined $23,000 after she realized her seat would not recline and proceeded to yell at and “verbally abuse” flight attendants.

Reports of unruly behavior in the air have sharply dropped since the campaign launched in January, though officials said the number of incidents remains high.

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