I've been meaning to post this for sveral days, and apologize if I missed a recent discussion on this topic.

Last week, the FAA released a report on Air Rage. I'm fuzzy on the numbers, but the FAA estimated about 300 incidents a year. Flight attendants estimated about 4,000 incidents a year (domestic).

This leads me to a number of questions?

1) What is "air rage"?

I've been pretty pissed before on a plane- I live in MSP, after all. If I sit silently rageful, if that Air Rage? How is this being defined. After having a flight cancelled, delayed, and being lied to about all of the above, missing an important meeting after your 8 hour delay while being treated like veal the entire time, does letting a comment slip to a mean FA that "Your airline sucks! I swear, I will never fly your airline again!" count as air rage if the passenger is buckled in and showing no physical maionfestations of rage?

Or does this require some form of assualt?


2) I have been on probably 300 flights in my life- the vast majority within the past 2 years- I've never seen it.

I know many here who have been on more flights?

Ever seen it?

3) Whose estimate is more correct?