On the surface, it sounds great.
But, what constitutes “unruly”?
Certainly, some drunk trying to open cabin doors or fighting with stewardesses are problematic.
But a couple of weeks ago, a lady traveling with a 2 year old was kicked off a flight because the child (that she was holding and trying to comfort because she wasn’t feeling good) was crying and didn’t want to wear a mask.
First of all, it reads like overreach by the flight crew. The incident was filmed by fellow passengers, the Mom was trying to be compliant and was removed from the flight anyways.
Does she deserve a lifetime ban from all carriers? What about the child?
What about a traveler who is minding their own business, and a steward or stewardess who’s having a bad day says or does something irritating to the traveler? If you even verbally respond you can be considered a threat, kicked off the flight, and forever banned from future travel without any recourse. I know one guy who had an encounter with a stewardess on a cross country flight, he’d been compliant wearing his mask, and was taking a sip from a bottle of water when he was sharply told to put his mask on. He wasn’t the only one, several passengers in his vicinity were told the same thing. One passenger asked how he could wear his mask while drinking water, the stewardess flat out told that passenger that if he said one more word she’d have him arrested when the plane landed.
Don’t think it can’t happen. The current Federal No Fly list is riddled with mistakes, and those whose names appear on that list currently have no recourse to having their name removed. Senator Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Lewis were two politicians whose names popped up on the list, despite their political pull even they couldn’t get their names removed.
The twin debates over gun control and terrorism are converging at the airport.
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In theory it sounds great, but the Feds can’t handle the No Fly list they currently utilize. If your name accidentally gets put on the list, there’s no mechanism in place to have it removed. Can you imagine the fiasco we’ll have if they’d put this in place?
You literally can be on a plane traveling, someone somewhere else with a similar or the same name gets put on the list, and when you land in Dallas and change flights you can possibly be denied entry to that plane, or any other plane.
The country has much bigger issues to deal with without adding more layers of bureaucracy to a bloated system that currently doesn’t work.
