Men and women wear suits and hats, carry little hand luggage and walk politely up stairs to board a plane. They chat calmly with passengers across the aisle. There is nary a bare foot to be seen.

“Flying,” an old-timey voice says in a video released by the Department of Transportation, “was a bastion of civility.” The public service announcement is part of a new campaign announced Thursday to “restore courtesy and class to air travel” as the number of cases involving disruptive passengers remains higher than 2019 levels.

The video juxtaposes that vintage footage with clips that show someone’s toes swiping on an airplane screen; fists flying between travelers; slaps, kicks and bites; flight attendants yelling “stop”; and a woman arguing that she is “allowed to move my seat back!”

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