Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged Americans to do their part in creating a “golden age of travel” that’s focused on being helpful, minding your manners, and dressing better.

His department highlighted some statistics of travelers behaving badly, including a 400% increase of in-flight outbursts since 2019 and the number of unruly passenger events doubling between 2019 and 2024.

Of course, that span includes the pandemic, when airlines enforced mask mandates, prompting many passengers who thought COVID was a hoax to push back against crews and disrupt flights.

In an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, Duffy noted that today’s air-travel misanthropy doesn’t just happen onboard planes, pointing to fights occurring at baggage claim and arguments with gate agents. He added that

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