A couple of years ago, when I’d rant about air travel – it usually had to do with lack of customer service (which of course, has pretty much long since disappeared).

Now I find myself ranting, from time to time – about passengers.

Not all of them – not even most. Just those “special few” who can make flying such a trial.

I’m thinking of the woman on a recent Southwest flight who started slapping fellow passengers for no apparent reason; the fellow who traveled across the Atlantic on a crowed plane while suffering from an infectious disease; then there was the man who got antsy while waiting as his plane idled on the tarmac, so he got the emergency door open, slid down the slide and scampered across the runway.

We – the well-behaved majority – pay the price (especially when planes are diverted for emergency landings as was the case with the passenger-slapping woman). There are missed appointments or missed connections and other inconveniences. All because of a very few – but sometimes very troublesome – idiots.

Has this happened to you? If so, do we have to start instituting an IQ test for travelers? Or just stop serving alcohol?

If anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with the situation, I’m all ears.