The last few years have been have faced a barrage of bad behavior. Now the is recommending another 22 of those unruly passengers face federal charges.

The passengers’ antics aren’t just getting too drunk on a plane or causing a kerfuffle over the long-abandoned mask protocol, the reports; these passengers were committing sexual assaults, committing regular assaults, making terror threats, attempting to break into the cockpit and smoking in the bathroom (OK, that last one isn’t as heinous, but it’s still definitely not allowed!). The incidents occurred in a span from 2021 to April of this year.

The FAA can’t bring criminal charges, though it can hit passengers with up to $37,000 in fees. What it can do is make recommendations to the FBI on who should catch charges. Since 2021, when passenger bad behavior spiked just before the de-masking of America, the FAA has recommended 270 people for criminal charges.

Things have generally calmed down, at least a little, among the passengers on commercial aircraft. The , when the FAA initiated over . In years before, the average number of incidents meriting investigations in a year were just over 140. Most of these tantrums were thrown over l during the height of the global pandemic. The FAA also began a zero tolerance policy towards incidents thanks to the sharp spike in attacks.

While the government didn’t create a no-fly list for unruly passengers at this time, airlines did, and even shared those lists with other airlines.

Things still aren’t good, of course. Flying is way more stressful now, with record cancelations due to , extreme . Close calls due to a lack of air traffic controllers and so many private planes teeming in the skies. And even with all of those challenges, many of us seem to be relearning how to be around humans after the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. An unruly passenger just caused a 9-hour flight to be diverted just last month after over his meal choice.