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Delta Plagued with Unruly Passengers

Oct 13 at 9:09pm by Beach Lover

Cited: MSNBC

Delta AirlinesOn September 26, a Delta Airlines flight 1721 bound for Amsterdam was forced to return To Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 30 min. after takeoff by an unruly passenger, according to spokeswoman Leslie Parker for the airline.  The passenger disturbance prompted the pilots to return to Seattle where the flight landed safely 7:27 PM with no one injured.  As for the 3rd unruly passenger so far this year.

Airline spokeswoman said Flight 224 left the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport just after 6 p.m. Saturday.  The flight was scheduled to land at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands early Monday afternoon local time.  She says the flight was canceled, and another flight, specifically for the Amsterdam-bound passengers, will depart Sunday.

The unruly passenger was removed from the plane and taken to a local medical facility, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration told BNO News.  The plane was swept for safety but nothing was found, TSA officials told BNO News.

A total of 215 passengers were on board Delta flight 224, which is also marketed as codeshare KLM flight 6024. It was not immediately clear if the passenger involved is American, Dutch, or of another nationality.

Parker did not comment on the details of the disturbance.

A Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman told The Seattle Times that the disruptive passenger was taken to a local medical facility.

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Strangely enough, 10 days earlier on September 11, authorities stated that Delta Airlines flight 1721 left the Tory Airport in Romulus at approximately 7:30 PM Friday, September 10, and that about an hour after departing a passenger became disruptive and return an hour later were the passenger was removed from point

FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold says the female passenger’s behavior concerned the crew, but she wasn’t being a threat.  Berchtold also stated the passenger wasn’t arrested but wouldn’t be allowed back on the plane. Berchtold said she couldn’t describe the disruption or release further details about the passenger.

Landers stated the Airbus A320 was carrying 138 passengers and 5 crew. It departed for Tampa again later.

Earlier this year, another Delta Airlines transatlantic flight made an unscheduled landing in Maine on Tuesday, April 27, after an unruly passenger made threatening comments involving explosives, according to three federal officials who asked for anonymity when talking about an incident still under investigation. The Paris-to-Atlanta flight, Delta 273, was diverted to Bangor after the passenger, who has not yet been identified publicly, apparently announced that he was in possession of explosives and a fake passport.

Initial indications are that the plane was roughly 60-90 minutes away from Bangor at the time, probably somewhere over Canada, says one of the federal officials. All three officials say that the man was subdued by Federal Air Marshals who had been assigned to provide security for that particular flight.

Two of the officials say the man had a US passport, although its authenticity is under investigation in light of his alleged claim it was a counterfeit. On the ground in Bangor, the man was handed over to law-enforcement officials there, says one of the officials, adding that charges might be filed against him by either federal or local authorities.

The man’s name was not on any list of known or suspected terrorists, according to one of the officials. All three officials say the case may have been just another minor incident that provoked extra attention because of public nervousness about airline security in the wake of 9/11 and the failed underpants bombing of an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight on Christmas Day.

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My Take: It seems like Delta Airlines is having problems with passengers.  It is too bad that a walk through metal detector can’t warn them of unruly passengers.  Maybe someday they’ll come up with a metal detector like device that will someday warn them about these types of passengers.  Hey, science fiction of today is science fact that tomorrow!  You just never know.

At least the air cargo security at airports is good now.  I understand that cargo screening at airports has gotten worse than passenger check-in.  However, you would think there would be a way to figure out if people are going to cause problems.  But as it stands, you have to be able to read minds know if a person was having difficulties.

I know one thing is for sure, the guy that said he had explosives, is going to need a Monmouth County criminal defense lawyer because I believe what he did was against the law.  If you didn’t have any explosives, I do not believe he would be acquired to have a Monmouth County fraud attorney.  I do not think they call what he did fraud if he was lying.  I think fraud is more of a crime involving finances.

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Airlines Faced Worst Year Ever in 2009 As Passenger Demand Dipped

Jan 27 at 7:07pm by Beach Lover

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Source: MSNBC

Airlines took a huge financial loss in 2009, suffering the worst-ever in delcines in passenger demand, indicating a recovery is likely not going to happen this year, an industry group said Wednesday.

Passenger demand dropped 3.5 percent last year, with companies struggling to fill more than three quarters of available seats on average flights, the International Air Transport Association said. Freight demand fared even worse, falling 10.1 percent year-on-year and filling less than half available capacity, the group said.

“In terms of demand, 2009 goes into the history books as the worst year the industry has ever seen,” said IATA Chief Executive Giovanni Bisignani.

“We have permanently lost 2½ years of growth in passenger markets and 3½ years of growth in the freight business,” he said.  IATA restated its earlier estimate that the industry will lose $5.6 billion in 2010.

The fall in demand slowed toward the end of the year, partly as a result of airlines slashing flights to avoid overcapacity, but yields remained 5-10 percent below 2008 levels, IATA said.

“Revenue improvements will be at a much slower pace than the demand growth that we are starting to see,” said Bisignani.

Security Issues Behind the Slowdown

Revenues and passenger travel are intrinsically linked, and so it’s no surprise to any industry analyst that airport security is having a huge impact on the slowdown.  Passengers are losing patience with long security checks.  And, for businesses, the air cargo handling issues are of equal concern.   The ATSB and the Fed have shifted financial responsibility to cargo carriers and the shippers to foot the bill for ramping up their air cargo security systems.  For many, the costs are too high and consequently air cargo is also facing a downturn.

Think about it: If you are small company that ships roughly $10,000 worth of goods a month overseas, but the costs of having your cargo pre-screened before boarding costs $5,000, that’s a big chunk of change to put up.  Most small business lenders out there are also making it tough for these little guys to get their hands on cash for the upgrades and additional security support.  And, it doesn’t take a genius in small business finance to figure out that only the big companies, the UPS’s of the world and so on, can survive for long.

He said 2010 would be “another spartan year” for the industry, marked by careful capacity control and cost reduction.

Fresh calls to increase security following the Dec. 25 attempted airline bombing in the United States will put additional pressure on the industry, Bisignani said, adding that governments — not airlines — should pick up the bill.

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My take:

It’s no surprise to me that, with the extensive delays that are now part and parcel of air travel to and from just about any airport in the world now, that more and more people would rather have prefer to do business with a Brooklyn slip fall attorney than have to strip their pockets and then wait in long lines for the privilege of boarding a plane.

The TSA may have implemented changes aimed at streamlining the process for “check-in” and boarding at airports across the country, but in many cases, the process of boarding a plane still feels like it’s being handled by a two-bit Sacramento County unarmed security company.   This is especially true when you think about how easily it was for the recently arrested would-be bomber to get explosives on board a plane in one country and land in ours, all the while wearing a bomb in his Fruit of the Looms.

Any NY City car accidents attorney or divorce lawyer for that matter can easily tell you where the responsibility for that blunder began.  The amount of money the government has poured into revamping the security equipment at our nation’s airports is astounding, and yet, we, as air travelers, know that the system is not anywhere close to offering us the level of security we obviously need.

If you do get on a flight, you’ve better have been working for a while on the most up-to-date Pilates fitness equipment, because that’s what it takes these days to maneuver down the narrow aisles and in and out of the incredibly shrinking seats we now pay for.  Forget about movie and snacks.  Those are slowly being removed from the list of perks for domestic travel, if not taken away altogether.  Along with blankets and pillows, in-flight entertainment has become a thing of the past.  You’re better off bringing your laptop and watching a Pilates dvd on board to get the hang of things.

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