(ETH) – The country’s largest flight attendant unions have recently expressed safety concerns over recent politically motivated disruptions aboard flights after what the mainstream media is calling a “Pro-Trump mob” that stormed the Capitol building, on Wednesday demanding that the presidential election be overturned.
These concerns of the unions’ came after at least two on-board disruptions on Washington D.C.-bound flights, which included a Delta Air Lines flight carrying Republican Senator. Mitt Romney of Utah, where some passengers chanted “traitor.” According to the report from CNBC, Delta stated that it was aware of the incident and that “our crew quickly engaged and resolved the issue.”
“The mob mentality behavior that took place on several flights to the D.C. area yesterday was unacceptable and threatened the safety and security of every single person on board,” said Sara Nelson, who is the current president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, representing over 50,000 cabin crew members at United, Alaska and more than a dozen other carriers.
Nelson went further to state: “The riots at the Capitol “create further concern about [participants’] departure from the D.C. area,” “Acts against our democracy, our government and the freedom we claim as Americans must disqualify these individuals from the freedom of flight.”
