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15 J. Transp. Sec. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jtransps15 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Transportation Security (2022) 15:1-22
https://doi.org/10.1007/si2198-021-00243-5
An evaluation into the causes of perpetual disruptive
passenger behavior
Katherine Di-Anna Bell'
Received: 23 October 2021 / Accepted: 5 December 2021 / Published online: 10 March 2022
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
2022
Abstract
There is a rising trend in the number of disruptive airline passenger reports filed to
the International Air Transport Association's Incident Data eXchange and National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Aviation Safety Reporting System over the
past 20 years. Passenger behavioral safety is vital for the comfort, well-being, and
safety of other passengers, crew, and an airline's smooth operations. Safety culture
has been shown to impact the implementation and efficiency of safety management
systems. This paper has evaluated the relationship between disruptive passenger
occurrences and the intentions of a safety management system, through the lens of
safety culture. An analysis of disruptive passenger reports from National Aeronaut-
ics and Space Administration's Aviation Safety Reporting System gave evidence of
the consequential actions taken against disruptive passengers There was a tendency
for disruptive passengers to either not be dealt consequences, or be subject to con-
sequences that are not in full alignment with the concept of a robust safety culture.
This perpetuated a sense that company support was lacking for frontline staff. It also
potentially created an awareness amongst passengers that disruptive behaviors on
aircraft were not statistically an arrestable offence. This reduces the efficiency of
threat of punishment as a deterrent.
Keywords Disruptive passenger - Unruly passenger - Disruptive behavior-
Disruptive action - Airport - Aircraft - Cabin crew
E Katherine Di-Anna Bell
BellK15@my.erau.edu
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

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