

Unruly passengers have forked over more than $1 million in fines this year alone. Naturally, 4,158 of those were due to passengers refusing to wear masks.ĭrunk passenger accounted for another 300 incidents on planes, according to the FAA. These in-flight fisticuffs were among the 5,779 disruptive passenger incidents logged by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2021. The brief bout was just the latest in a pandemic plan brawl trend. Airlines grounded 600 flights across the country on Christmas Eve due to weather problems and staffing shortages brought on by the spread of the super-contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19.

The two men are lucky to be flying at all.

Police were either never called or failed to show up when the plane touched down in Memphis, according to TMZ Both men exited the plane and kept their distance at the luggage carousel. Neither of the combatants land a punch, of course, and the woman continues to scream in the background.Īnother passenger comes between the two men seconds later and, breathless, they both retreat in opposite directions down the aisle.Īccording to the celebrity news website's source, police were either never called or failed to show up when the plane touched down in Memphis. One of the man tries to palm the other's face and then the wild swinging begins. The video picks up after the insults were hurled and the two men can been seen bear hugging each other and clawing one and other in the face.Ī woman screams 'stop, stop' and both try unsuccessfully to throw the half-nelson, causing the man dressed in tan's shirt to rid ride up and mussing the thinning hair of the rival in blue. because you think you're better than everyone else,' his opponent quipped.Īnd then things got personal when one of the men said: 'You're a really horrible person.' The man in blue, who apparently had a little too much Christmas cheer, was not wearing his mask properly, annoying other passengers, according to the website's sources. Tis the season to deck fellow travelers in the aisle of your holiday flight.Ī 'loud, drunken' passenger who was reportedly violating mask mandates on a red-eye Delta flight from Los Angeles to Memphis engaged in little impromptu MMA with a fellow traveler, a newly released video on TMZ shows.
