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Air travel has gotten more violent. Flight attendants want training to fight back.

The unprecedented upswing in confrontations with unruly air passengers since 2020, ranging from near-stabbings to broken teeth, is aiding flight attendants’ demand for a benefit they’ve been seeking since 9/11 — legally mandated self-defense training. A provision in a major Senate aviation policy bill would require airlines to train flight attendants to “subdue and restrain” an attacker and defend themselves against weapons.