The bill says anyone could be banned for several offenses including assaulting , threatening or intimidating a crew member or a passenger aboard a flight . It's targeting un passengers like this and countless others who have made headlines recently for disruptive behavior on planes , but disruptive may mean different things to different people . Let's welcome our panel , positive psychology expert and author Robert Mack and content creator , Sonal Shah .
I'd say both . It's a complex debate , obviously and while you know , safety is paramount in air travel , defining what constitutes disruptive behavior can be extraordinarily challenging . It's hard to sort of strike this balance between protecting staff and passengers from genuine threats on one hand , but not sort of of unfairly penalizing individuals for minor inconveniences or subjective judgments ?
But on the other hand , it's like as a crying baby , disruptive as an emotional support dog . Um being disruptive and so sort of defining disruptive behavior is the first piece . Um , the second piece is , um , you know , if it does feel like it's disruptive , then the question is , do you address it with the airline ?
But how do we begin that conversation ? Yeah , it's uh so difficult to define disruptive behavior , right ? I mean , obviously what you're seeing there on the screen seems extraordinarily disruptive .
Um being disruptive and so sort of defining disruptive behavior is the first piece . Um , the second piece is , um , you know , if it does feel like it's disruptive , then the question is , do you address it with the airline ? Do you address it with the authorities or do you just address it with the flight attendant ?
