Delta CEO Ed Bastian has asked the U.S. federal government to create a national ‘no-fly’ list to keep passengers barred from his airline for bad behavior from simply booking another carrier next time.
Although number of air rage incidents, violent drunkenness and more have shown a slight decline under pressure of federal civil penalties and fines, they still remain much higher than before 2020, and have resulted in injuries to airline employees and even passengers.
Earlier, Bastian had proposed that the airlines share their no-fly lists, but ran into questions of possible liability, especially if an airline denied service based on an erroneous report filed by another. That liability would be relieved if the list came from the government, as do other no-fly lists based on suspicion of terrorist activity.
Bastian said that Delta’s no-fly list now has 1,900 names, and 900 of these were reported to FAA and TSA for possible prosecution or fines.
