The Delta Air line wants the United States government to place passengers who are punished for on-board interference in the national “without flies” list that will limit them from future trips to any commercial airline, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
The Head of Executive Delta Ed Bastian, in a letter previously not reported to the US Attorney General Merrick Garland, said the action “will help prevent future incidents and function as a strong symbol of the consequences of not obeying the instructions of the crew members on commercial aircraft”.
Requests came in the middle of a record of surge in annoying passengers reported for the past 13 months.
The Ministry of Justice does not immediately comment.
In November, Garland directed the federal prosecutor to prioritize the prosecution of airline passengers who carry out attacks and other crimes on the aircraft.
Delta notes at this time there is a list without flies which is a subset of a list of terrorism supervisors that enable the US government to ban people considered a threat to civil aviation from traveling by airplane.
The federal flight administration said last year had taken a “zero tolerance” approach and referred to more than three dozen passengers that were difficult to set to the FBI for the potential for criminal prosecution.
Bastian said Delta had placed nearly 1,900 people in the list of “without flies” delta to refuse to comply with masking requirements and submit more than 900 prohibited names to the transportation security administration to pursue civilian penalties.
Delta previously asked another airline to share a list of “without flies” that had not been arranged to ensure individuals “which have endangered the safety and safety of our people did not continue to do so on other operators,” Bastian wrote.
Last month, three New York residents were charged with attacking Delta security officers at JFK airport in September.
The three were required to attack “an airline security officer by beating him to the floor with the radio and then kicked and punched his face and body when he went down”, said the US lawyer last month.
On October 8, President Joe Biden said he had instructed the Ministry of Justice to “handle” with the increasing number of violent incidents on the plane.