Two other passengers were at the other end of their row with their hands over their ears when one of the women who was singing and listening to the music zoomed in on the scene with her phone while recording the occurrence.
When the camera was rolling, one of the two women who were playing the music pointed her middle finger in the direction of the passengers who had their ears covered, and said, “F*** off.”
There have been several comments and tweets that have been quoted along with 15.5 million views of the video on Twitter. This year, behavior in airports and on airplanes has seemed to be a big subject.
A man’s furious reaction to a baby screaming on a flight last week caused him to become viral. Additionally, there have been a few videos this year of passengers fighting and bickering on planes, which led to emergency landings or flight delays. Social media users reacted to the two women blaring the clip, and everyone seemed to agree that they were disrespectful to the other passengers.
“Has the same demographic of persons who engage in behavior similar to this. Always. In a few weeks, you’ll see this start to become a norm, and when people start to speak up and get ejected, they play the victim and make it about race. Please act like rational, decent human beings. Smh” commented one Twitter user.
Was civility lost during COVID, another person asked in a comment. Nowadays, it seems like nobody really knows what’s appropriate. This makes me think of gym floors with speakers or having chats on speakers in public. Ask for assistance.
Women blast music on the plane as if they own it. pic.twitter.com/Vxu24N9vyu
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) April 23, 2023
Other users used the chance to poke fun at Spirit Airlines, which is notorious for having outrageous passenger encounters that frequently go viral. Someone said, “Must be Spirit Airlines.”
The tweet received the following response from another user: “Naw spirit is for crashing they take souls as a sacrifice hence the name this gotta be southwest.”
Discussions on enlarging laws that regulate behavior on aircraft have also been triggered by rowdy passengers.
One who is placed on the “no-fly” list, in the words of the FBI, “prohibits an individual who may present a threat to civil aviation or national security from boarding a commercial aircraft that traverses U.S. airspace.”
The FBI added that “credible information demonstrating that the individual presents a threat of committing an act of terrorism with respect to an aircraft, the homeland, U.S. facilities, or interests abroad, or is a threat of engaging in or conducting a violent act of terrorism and is operationally capable of doing so” was required before someone could be added to the list.
According to The Washington Post, Delta Air Lines management requested that persons who have been found guilty of federal crimes connected to onboard disruption be added to the no-fly list last year. Additionally, Delta requests that other airlines share their no-fly lists.
In an email response to Delta’s request in February 2022, Justice Department spokesperson Joshua Stevens stated that the request will be forwarded to the relevant divisions. There haven’t been any further developments about Delta’s proposal yet.