CANBERRA, ACT, April 17 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
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Travellers be warned. If you joke about blowing up a plane, abuse airline staff, attack strangers or, most bizarrely of all, try to open the door on a moving aircraft while several thousand feet in the air, there will be consequences.
At the designated airports where the AFP is the lead law enforcement agency, being Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Darwin, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, there has been a spike in arrests for bad behaviour.
AFP's highly skilled aviation members have charged 347 people with 408 offences this year already*, while in the previous 12 mont...