Originally Posted by
tsadude1
I'm not talking about an extremely anxious pax, half the line is in that catagory. I'm talking about extreme anxiety and/or paranoid schizophrenia . There's a huge difference. One will be just fine while the other has potential to stop your flight. Usually extreme anxiety or paranoid schizophrenia pax are brought to the airport on one way tickets because the person with whom they were staying with can no longer handle/deal with them.
Your description fits most of the people I deal with on a daily basis, not one of them is any threat to the safety of an airplane. Could they go nuts once up in the air - yes, they sure could but for a BDO to interview them and perhaps try to keep them off a plane due to the behaviors they can exhibit is pure and simple discrimination against people with profound disabilities - and not legal.
These are adults, often living on their own and for the most part making their own way in the world. Are they different in the extreme? Most certainly, but that is no reason for them to be treated as suspects at an airport.
And they don't travel on one-way tickets.