Air travel has become worse than ever - and the iPhone is to blame,br>It seems a day can't pass without a story about a disruptive airline passenger going viral. Together, they create the impression that air travel has become a circus. But it's difficult to tell if air travellers are acting out more, of if social media makes the most extreme examples of misbehaviour easier to share. Before, a disruptive passenger "was going to be, at most, local news," Bhaskara said. If a passenger's impression of air travel is formed by depictions of extreme behaviour, that passenger might expect the worst and be more likely to act out of character if something goes wrong.

Source: Stuff March 23, 2018 23:48 UTC