Delta Air Lines has banned passengers who disturbed Utah Sen Mitt Romney and South Carolina Sen Lindsey Graham before their flights last week and will ban all weapons from checked baggage on flights to Washington, DC, until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden next week. .
Romney, the only Republican senator to vote to oust President Donald Trump after being indicted, was on a flight from Salt Lake City to DC when he was harassed by a Trump supporter while awaiting his flight. .
A second video showed dozens of people on a flight screaming “traitor” at Romney, although he is not seen in that clip.
On Friday, Graham was preparing to leave DC when Trump’s supporters confronted him at Reagan International Airport and called him a “traitor to the country.”
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the company has now placed 880 people on its flight list without complying with mask requirements, and others have been banned from flying with the airline for harassing passengers or misbehaving. US election results.
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Delta Air Lines banned 880 passengers who disturbed Utah Sen Mitt Romney and South Carolina Sen Lindsey Graham before their flights last week. A woman approached Romney (left and right) while he waited for a flight from Salt Lake City to Washington, DC
In addition, Bastian said that as of this weekend, the airline will ban passengers from traveling to DC with firearms.
“We are all on high alert based on the events of the last two weeks in Washington,” Bastian told CNBC on Thursday morning.
Law enforcement will be exempt from the ban.
Bastian also said that other security measures will be implemented at airports and planes “while we look at next week”.
Earlier last week, Romney was disturbed and mocked by Trump supporters before the “Save America” rally.
“Let him know what we think,” a woman is heard shouting in a viral video of the incident, before a group of Trump supporters with masks fired chanting “traitor” and “traitor Mitt” from their seats.
Romney is believed to be still on the plane, but cannot be seen while Trump’s fans record the incident.
Trump supporters traveling in a plane from Texas to DC caused chaos, while flight attendants struggled to control the plane amid chants, applause and arguments.
At one stage in the video of the incident, someone on the plane displays a “Trump 2020” projection before the lights in the cabin turn on.
Meanwhile, people are heard shouting at each other, with one saying, “Shut the fuck up!”
Others are heard claiming that someone on the flight “threatened” them, but it is not clear what happened.
The next day, the Americans saw dozens of MAGA supporters storm the Chapter in a shocking incident that killed five people, including a Chapter police officer.
Sen Graham was at Reagan Airport near DC when he had a meeting with a number of Trump’s vocal supporters last Friday.
Trump’s loyalists clashed with Graham after backing down on his promise to challenge the Electoral College’s certification on Wednesday, claiming that many thousands of votes were fraudulent.
The video appears of someone shouting “traitor” at Graham as he is surrounded by police officers walking down the airport corridor.
“Lindsey Graham, you are a traitor to the country,” someone shouted. “You know he was faked, you know he was faked!”
Graham seems to be saying something to the screaming person, but he is inaudible.
“You’re human garbage,” someone shouted. “It will be like this forever wherever you go for the rest of your life.”
‘Check your vote! Check your vote! Check your vote! Check your vote! A piece of shit, someone says as Graham continues to walk with his mask hanging from his chin.
Sen Graham was at Reagan Airport near DC when he had a meeting with a number of Trump supporters last Friday.
The video appears of someone calling him a “traitor” to Graham as he is surrounded by police officers walking down the airport corridor.
People start chanting “Check your vote” and “Check our vote” before someone yells at you “son of a bitch” at Graham.
On Tuesday, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer said Trump supporters who violated the U.S. Chapter should be banned from flying and added to a “no-fly” government list.
And on Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it would implement a new “zero tolerance” policy on unregulated air passengers, following a series of incidents involving Trump supporters.
FAA chief Steve Dickson signed an order directing the agency to severely penalize any passenger who is disruptive on a flight or who does not follow the instructions of the airline’s staff.
The number of banned passengers from US airlines now exceeds 2,700, with dozens of these bans being distributed in the eight days since the January 6 riot.
Dickson said any passenger who violated the new order could be fined up to $ 35,000 and possibly jailed.
The chief stressed that the FAA will not issue any warning letter or negotiate sanctions.
“We will no longer judge some of these cases of unregulated passengers with counseling or warnings. We will go straight to execution, Dickson said.
“We have seen a worrying increase in these incidents … We will take strong enforcement action against any passenger who engages in it.”
Dickson said the agency’s special “zero tolerance” program will be in place until at least March 30.
He added that the FAA may, in some cases, send incidents for prosecution to the Department of Justice, which could require sentences of up to 20 years for flight disturbances.