A fowl flies by within the foreground as a Southwest Airways jet is available in for a touchdown at McCarran Worldwide Airport on Could 25, 2020 in
A fowl flies by within the foreground as a Southwest Airways jet is available in for a touchdown at McCarran Worldwide Airport on Could 25, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Southwest Airways mentioned it’s delaying plans to renew serving alcoholic drinks, after one among its flight attendants was assaulted and the business grapples with a surge of different passenger incidents on board.
A Southwest flight attendant suffered accidents to her face and misplaced two enamel after she was assaulted by a passenger, in accordance with a Could 24 letter from Southwest flight attendants’ union president Lyn Montgomery to CEO Gary Kelly. Between April eight to Could 15, there have been 477 passenger misconduct incidents on Southwest flights, Montgomery wrote.
Airways have been slowly bringing again some meal snack and beverage service that they’d paused early within the pandemic.
Dallas-based Southwest had deliberate to renew alcohol gross sales in June for Hawaii flights, and in July for longer home flights within the continental United States. A Southwest spokesman mentioned there may be presently “no timetable” for the alcohol gross sales to renew.
“As alcohol gross sales are added again into this already risky atmosphere, you’ll be able to absolutely perceive our concern,” Montgomery wrote within the letter.
On Monday, a day after the incident on board the Sacramento to San Diego flight, the Federal Aviation Administration mentioned it has obtained roughly 2,500 studies of unruly passenger conduct this yr, roughly 1,900 of these instances involving vacationers who refused to observe the federal masks mandate throughout air journey.
The Biden administration nonetheless requires that folks put on face masks on planes, on the airport, and on buses and trains by Sept. 13, although the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has loosened pointers for vaccinated people in different settings.