There is a lot to feel anxious about when traveling by air: you are in a sealed metal container hurtling through the sky; there could be a supernatural menace lurking in the cargo hold; sometimes they play reruns of Two and a Half Men on the little in-flight TVs…. Increasingly, though, a different type of terror stalks the skies — that of fellow passengers succumbing to Dionysian revelry.
As the Guardian reports, according to the International Air Transport Association — which represents 240 airlines, or about 84% of total air traffic — there has been a significant increase in reports of “unruly passenger incidents.” This past year, there were 8,000 reports, a big jump up from 2011, when 6,000 incidents occurred, and a huge leap from 2007 (500 reports). Alcohol, predictably, is the biggest contributing factor to said unruly behavior, with not being allowed to smoke coming in second.
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