Chinese internet users have complained that the five-day detention for a flight passenger who disrupted public order on a domestic flight was not harsh enough, a local news website reported.
According to the airline, the male passenger, surnamed Fan, had made several “unreasonable demands” on flight KY8234 from the eastern city of Hangzhou to Kunming, in southern Yunnan province, last Thursday, Kunming Airlines said in a statement on their website.
The man had asked a flight attendant to remove his pants for him after he spilt a beverage on himself, refused to switch off his mobile phone as the plane was taxiing before take-off, and made staff pour him a glass of every beverage choice available, amongst other demands in the three-hour flight, Kunming Airlines said in statement.
Internet users called for the passenger to be blacklisted, saying that the police should “punish the perpetrator to ensure flight safety”, according to the Shanghai-based news website Thepaper.cn.
The airline added that a flight attendant asked the man to change into another set of pants so she could help him clean the dirtied pair.
She refused to help him take off his pants as he requested, and in response, he tossed a cup of juice at her, splashing other passengers in the process and threw a handful of rubbish at another senior flight attendant’s face.
The passenger was handed over to authorities after the plane landed in Kunming, and was detained for five days.
Many who commented online said the penalty was too lenient to serve its purpose of deterring other passengers from behaving badly, the Paper.cn wrote.
“If the penalty was changed to five months or five years, this kind of thing would not happen anymore, and these kinds of people would disappear,” one user commented.
China’s civil aviation authority recently issued a list of prohibited behaviour for inflight passengers after a spate of air rage incidents.
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