A passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Cincinnati may have ended up on Santa’s naughty list after bad behavior forced the plane to take a detour to Kansas City during Christmas week.
According to a Delta Air Lines spokesman, it was Delta Flight 2915 from Cincinnati to Las Vegas rerouted to Kansas City on Dec. 23 to remove an “unruly passenger.”
“Delta does not tolerate any kind of unruly behavior and will cooperate with law enforcement to that end,” the Delta spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “We apologize to our customers for the delay in their travel.”
According to Flight Aware, The flight took off just after 7 a.m. before landing at KCI nearly 30 minutes later.
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A woman reportedly sneaked onto a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris this week. (iStock)
Officials at KCI confirmed to KCTV5 that the plane landed uneventfully and departed around 10:45 a.m. the same day.
The data showed the detour added more than two hours to the flight for travelers to Las Vegas. The plane finally reached its final destination shortly after 11:35 a.m. on Monday.
No further details about the incident were initially disclosed.
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FILE PHOTO: A passenger walks past a Delta Air Lines aircraft at the gate at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, January 3, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File photo
This is the second incident this month in which a passenger was disturbed on a Delta flight.
A Russian citizen According to the FBI, the man, a legal resident of the United States, was taken into FBI custody at JFK International Airport after he stowed away on a Delta Air Lines flight to Paris last month.
Svetlana Dali, 57, made national headlines when she arrived without valid travel documents enter France, managed to bypass TSA checkpoints when he boarded Delta Flight 264 to Paris on November 26 without a boarding pass.
Dali was reportedly arrested again after allegedly riding a Greyhound bus to Buffalo and attempting to cross the border into Canada.
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Delta Air Lines aircraft. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) (Getty Images)
Prosecutors allege at the Dec. 6 hearing that she tried to sneak into security areas at several U.S. airports to fly without a ticket.
This latest aviation accident occurred as the AAA predicted it would affect 119.3 million people in America travel 50 miles or more this holiday season. They also expect this number to surpass the record set before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019.
“This is the time of year when lifelong memories are made with loved ones, and travel plays a big role in that,” said Stacey Barber, vice president of AAA Travel. said in a press release. “With Christmas Day falling on a Wednesday this year, we expect record-breaking travel numbers on the weekend before and the weekend after the holiday.”
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AAA predicted that around 7.8 million people are expected to fly there destination although plane tickets were more expensive than last year.
Fox News Digital’s Christina Shaw and Julian Atienza contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
