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So much for flying the friendly skies.

An epidemic of air rage and violence at 30,000 feet has prompted several hundred flight attendants to sign up for self-defense classes, CNN’s Pete Muntean reports. Cabin crew members are being taught by federal air marshals how to punch, elbow and gouge potential assailants.
There have been thousands of incidents of violence and intimidation against flight attendants this year, as tempers fray over the usual frustrations with air travel and a new irritant — mask mandates for everyone on board. One Southwest Airlines employee lost two teeth in an assault, according to her union. And every now and then a new video goes viral of passengers fighting on board and taking out their ire on flight attendants, like the one above reportedly on a recent Frontier Airlines fight.

If it gets any worse, cabin crews will not only have to point out emergency exits and the location of life vests for “the unlikely event of a landing on water,” they also might warn any budding troublemakers that they risk an elbow to the jaw. .