More than 3,000 passengers banned from U.S. airlines, with dozens added in wake of Capitol riot By Kris Van Cleave, Kathryn Krupnik, Allison Elyse Gualtieri
Updated on: February 1, 2021 / 11:32 AM / CBS News Rep. Cheri Bustos on Capitol insurrection
During an Alaska Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Seattle in early January, a number of passengers refused to wear masks and harassed crew members, the airline said. In response, Alaska banned 14 of the passengers on that flight just some of a growing number of disruptive passengers airlines are putting on their own no-fly lists. And President Joe Biden has signed an executive order making face coverings mandatory on planes, the latest move to ensure passengers wear masks, after the Federal Aviation Administration announced several weeks ago it will start taking legal action over such behavior.
Mask Fights and a ‘Mob Mentality’: What Flight Attendants Faced Over the Last Year
Furloughs, passengers who won’t wear masks and tense political confrontations contributed to a year of perpetual chaos for flight attendants. “It’s insane,” one veteran attendant said.
Peter Golembiewski and Brittany Riley, both flight attendants, near their home in Colorado. “I don’t know how a lot of us are going to make it,” Ms. Riley said, without a comprehensive relief plan.Credit.Daniel Brenner for The New York Times
Jan. 26, 2021
One flight attendant needed medical attention for a crippling migraine brought on by confronting a passenger who refused to wear a mask.
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