The airlines have become utterly unaccountable since de-regulation. The power to remove people who pose a safety risk is now abused to remove anyone the FA's take offense too, or who challenge the often unreasonable actions of staff. If you have ever seen Airline, it is not uncommon for a passenger making a complaint to be told that if they continue to complain, they will be removed from the flight. Equally, bogus safety concerns and security measures are used to justify the unjustifiable. The answer can only be in re-regulating the industry and that takes political action. After JetBlue kept some passengers hostage for over 8 hours (?), it was political action which forced the airlines to agree that they could not treat passengers in this manner. It will take similar concerted complaints and action before anything is done about this. Similar problems are occuring in Europe, particularly with airlines such as Ryanair.
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