An American Airlines flight diverted after passenger assaulted flight attendant

True.
BUT
I don’t see why any of us should have to pay a premium to avoid the bullshit.
As far as ‘paying a premium’ goes, you could always contract with a private pilot & avoid all the b.s… and rent anything from a two-person prop-job to a biz-jet.

I. for one, don’t have that kind of scratch, nor money to blow to fly anything other than Coach.
And damned if I want my records scrutinized by some bureaucrat.