The agency initiated 496 investigations and 289 enforcement actions.
Year-to-date as of Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration had received 1,483 reports of unruly passengers, which included 1.3 incidents for every 10,000 flights during the week ending May 29. But now, the union is bringing these assaults to the forefront to protect our members, which I think is fantastic.”Ībuse against flight attendants continues, although it has lessened since the mask mandate was lifted on April 18. Said Calvert, now a TWU representative, “During this incident, we did not have a union at JetBlue. “If a customer threatens or assaults our crewmembers, they will not be allowed to fly with us again and we work very closely with the authorities, including the FAA, to ensure that both criminal prosecution and civil penalties are pursued where appropriate.” “We have never tolerated violence of any kind against our crewmembers,” said JetBlue spokesman Doug McGraw. JetBlue has barred the passenger in question and his three companions from the airline for life. The captain diverted the flight to Richmond, where police arrested the passenger, who was found guilty and required to pay several thousand dollars in restitution for the diversion. “The center of my back fell on top” of one of the passenger’s three companions. “I was talking to the passenger and he pushed me over the seat back,” Calvert said. But about 20 minutes into the flight, the fire alarm in the rear lavatory went off.Īfter the passenger was convinced to return to his seat, Calvert approached him, seeking to determine whether he had been vaping. A group of four men carried bottles of Michelob Ultra onto the aircraft: flight attendants confiscated the bottles. His encounter with violence occurred on an evening Newark-Fort Lauderdale flight in November 2019. TWU also represents municipal transportation workers in Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Columbus and San Francisco.Ĭalvert has spent 11 years in the airline industry, including eight as a JetBlue flight attendant. Another 42,000 are in Local 100, which represents New York City bus and subway workers. Of those, 23,000 are flight attendants including 15,000 at Southwest and 6,500 at JetBlue. “We have a moment of time we can step in and do something that would be a dream come true - a federal mandate to ban abusive passengers.” “No transportation worker should be used as cannon fodder,” Samuelsen said. “We’re looking to nip this in the bud nationally so the skies do not turn into the public transit systems in Philly or New York, where the bosses view it as the cost of doing business.” On Tuesday, a New York MTA bus driver was stabbed in the stomach in Brooklyn by a passenger and slashed in the face by a man who forced his way onto the bus after the driver, following the law, would not open the door between stops, according to television station ABC 7 in New York. “The pandemic and the mask mandates increased it and shone a light on it, but violence against transit workers and railway workers has been a reality for quite some time. “The reality that it’s a violent world is now evident in air travel,” Samuelsen said.
0 kommentar(er)
