Violent and drunken airline passengers - updated statistics released
2018
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has just released figures which show that it had already received more than 200 incident reports about disruptive passengers from UK airlines in 2018.
The latest figures mirror previous years, which have seen over 400 incidents reported for each full year, many involving acts of violent and intimidating behaviour.
Date | Number of reports |
2013 | 98 |
2014 | 145 |
2015 | 195 |
2016 | 415 |
2017 | 417 |
2018 | 202 |
Total | 1472 |
The CAA is calling on airlines and enforcement agencies to make better use of laws already in place and calls for more travellers to be prosecuted for violent and drunken behaviour while Airlines UK (the trade body for UK registered airlines) commenting on the statistics wants licensing laws at airports tightened up with the airside of terminals subject to the same licensing controls as landside.
Source: Civil Aviation Authority