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We are slowly calming down on airline flights

Chris Hayes thinks we've all calmed down a bit this year:

I am officially bored today, so here are the numbers:

The numbers for 2022 are extrapolated in different ways,¹ but I think it provides approximately the right answer. The absolute number of unruly passenger incidents is also down.

But not down by much! We are still way short of the halcyon years of 2000-19, when nearly all American adults were apparently able to sit still for a few hours without erupting in fury.

¹Unruly passenger data is available through October, so I multiplied by 1.2 to get an annual figure. This may be wrong if, say, the holiday season produces more angry people than the rest of the year. Passenger miles data was extrapolated using the linear trend through August, the most recent month available.

10 thoughts on “We are slowly calming down on airline flights

  1. Ken Rhodes

    Hey, show me the data from the late 1960s.

    When I started flying for my work, gentlemen wore jackets and ties, ladies wore dresses and hats, and people said "please" when they asked the stew for anything.

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  2. morrospy

    Not just flights, I don't think. If you've attended any public meetings lately, they are calmer. Anyway, I agree.
    People had all this sublimated rage during the pandemic that came out in very weird ways.

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  3. jte21

    I think 90% of the incidents during the pandemic were related to mask-wearing compliance. Now that that's optional, I think people have settled down a bit. But the pandemic seems to have unleashed a whole lot of anti-social/psychotic behavior not just in airplanes, but on streets, in restaurants, in subways, etc. A bunch of people ended up with broken brains and just no way to control their impulses/temper. I'm sure social psychologists and mental health specialists will be working on this for a long time to come. I wonder if there was a long denouement of social assholery in the early 20's after the flu pandemic?

  4. Justin

    https://www.citybeat.com/news/west-chester-rep-jennifer-gross-asks-paster-to-banish-witchcraft-at-ohio-statehouse-14341295?fbclid=IwAR1alqkjVKaDMLorJDdEkWvlgDc3zL_nd6qyTOmVGPKYKXBgE62mTl_2Dj0&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

    Maybe she banished witchcraft on planes.

    Hill proceeded to pray over the Ohio House with vigor. “We submit this house to the rulership of King Jesus," Hill said. "Jesus, you were given the nations as your inheritance, and I thank you that you continue to let us steward this Earth and govern your people in liberty and freedom."

  5. Utek

    I think it has more to do with the airlines than with passengers. It used to be that if you booked a flight, you were reasonably sure that you would be able to board the plane and arrive at your destination more or less on time. But the airlines practice in recent years of serially overbooking flights or cancelling flights at the last minute have left thousands of travelers stranded and frustrated. I have had too many incidents of not being allowed on flights that I had already paid for waiting for a vacancy to open up that I would be happy never to have to fly again. If you're stuck in a terminal for hours or days, or idling forever on a runway packed in seats crammed together for maximum capacity you better believe you'd be angry.

    1. rrhersh

      I felt that way a decade before the pandemic. The entire process is just miserable, and has been for years. That being said, I have flown two times in recent years, one before the pandemic and one during masking. In both cases, everything went fine. Even during masking, the people I saw were dealing with it just fine. The worst I saw was people lingering over their sodas while waiting in the airport, giving them an excuse not to have the mask on. The problem is not that things are likely to collapse around you, but that this is always a non-trivial possibility, combined with the whole cattle car ambiance.

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