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    Thumbs up Inside the increasingly violent world of US flight attendants...

    Inside the increasingly violent world of US flight attendants...

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    Working as a flight attendant previously afforded Mitra Amirzadeh the freedom to explore the world -- taking her from her home in Florida to destinations including Kenya, France and Spain. As the pandemic spread, the perks of Amirzadeh's job diminished. Now restricted to domestic US flights, her work involves navigating not only the fear of catching Covid-19, but also the recent uptick in disruptive passengers.

    "I'm dealing with a lot of babysitting, which I never counted on doing," Amirzadeh, who works for a low-cost US airline, tells CNN Travel. "The actual children on board behave better than the grown adults do."

    This summer, unruly passenger behavior seems to have reached new heights. In one incident, a passenger punched a Southwest flight attendant and knocked out two of their teeth. Video also circulated of a passenger getting taped to their seat after they reportedly punched and groped Frontier Airlines flight crew. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it has issued more than $1 million in fines to unruly airline passengers so far in 2021. US flight attendants tell CNN Travel say the stress of the situation is taking its toll.

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    I have a family member who is a flight attendant, and one who is a gate agent for the same airline. The stories are numerous... some funny, some not funny at all. They've both been doing it for over 25 years. Fortunately, no major incidents of violence that couldn't be handled.

    In this current world of people who feel they are entitled to treat other people like trash, have no compunctions about being drunk as a skunk and abusing people attempting to assist or direct, who are so self centered that they don't care if the inconvenience other people or cause distress, I give you a whole-heartedly felt one finger salute.
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    When you turn your airline into a bus then you cannot be surprised when you get greyhound bus lines quality passengers.

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    The airlines treat people like sh*t all the time and they're surprised that more and more people are acting out on planes?

    The governmental and corporate sectors in this country are increasingly treating people like animals to be herded. Don't act surprised when they start behaving more like animals.

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    I'm younger than most here, but I'm still old enough to remember when airports were happy places. Post-9/11, airports started turning into mini-police states. Post-COVID, they are basically little dystopias. Their insane obsession with masking people in airports and on planes has a particularly dehumanizing effect.
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