If "conviction" is a standard, then 95% of the culprits dont need to worry. Less than 5% of disturbers are fined according FAA news releases. Much fewer are criminally convicted. (FAA cant do criminal convictions because it has to refer such people to prosecutors.) when did you read of of one of the 6,000 2021 disturbers receive jail time?

I get my numbers from the FAA news releases. Every few months they report fines of unruly passengers. But they report only a handful cases compared to the 500 or so monthly incidents in 2021.

Here is the most recent press release: 8 fines of 300 cases, or less than 3%. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-levies-161823-against-eight... There are several such releases in the list with equally dismal numbers.