We’ve all seen the video of that woman freaking out because she had to sit next to a fat person, we’ve seen video’s of passengers acting a fool on the planes and in the airport.
My solution is that every airline in North America agree to create a board where they each have equal numbers of representatives, give all crew members body cameras and when an incident happens or when a passenger refuses to follow instructions they can create a case with the board, they look over it and they vote if a majority votes in favor they can then decide for how long they’re blacklisted from flying including for life. This should also be done with trains and busses.
I disagree, so this is probably a good post. I view your proposal as similar to the death penalty. If I knew with 100% certainty that this list would only ever be used for absolute shit heads who can’t behave then I’d be all for it. However, we live in the real world and there’s a lot of edge cases. There was a video of a little girl singing Disney songs over the speaker on a plane that was delayed recently, what if that little girl never got to fly again because her mom told her to do something for internet fame? Maybe a flight attendant goes on a power trip and antagonizes a customer into a moment that gets them banned. Airplanes are the most realistic way of travel in a lot of the world and by far the most realistic way to travel internationally and giving full control of that method of transportation to the whims of mega-corps feels very dangerous to me
I’d say it should only apply to adults, airlines are a business which means they aren’t likely to willingly ban a paying customer unless they deem them an absolute liability. I can see potential situations where staff intentionally instigates the situation but it would be rare and they’d need to explain what happened which is harder to lie. Plus in the age of social media someone is probably filming right at the start to show who’s right or wrong