{"id":395437,"date":"2021-01-15T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T03:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395437"},"modified":"2021-01-15T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T04:00:28","slug":"us-orders-zero-tolerance-for-disruptive-airline-passengers-possibly-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-orders-zero-tolerance-for-disruptive-airline-passengers-possibly-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"US orders zero tolerance for disruptive airline passengers, possibly jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson signed an order on Wednesday directing the agency to take a &#8220;zero tolerance policy&#8221; after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump were disruptive on some recent flights. <\/p>\n<p>Dickson told Reuters the FAA&#8217;s special emphasis program would last through March 30 and warned disruptive passengers could face up to $35,000 fines and possible jail time. He emphasized the agency will not issue warning letters or negotiate penalties. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will no longer adjudicate certain of these unruly passenger cases with counseling or warnings. We&#8217;re going to go straight to enforcement,&#8221; Dickson said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson signed an order on Wednesday directing the agency to take a &#8220;zero tolerance policy&#8221; after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump were disruptive on some recent flights. Dickson told Reuters the FAA&#8217;s special emphasis program would last through March 30 and warned disruptive passengers could face up to $35,000 fines and possible jail time. He emphasized the agency will not issue warning letters or negotiate penalties. &#8220;We will no longer adjudicate certain of these unruly passenger cases with counseling or warnings. We&#8217;re going to go straight to enforcement,&#8221; Dickson said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}