China has banned three passengers from flying with major airlines for "reckless behaviour" as authorities attempted to impart good behaviour among Chinese fliers, state media reported today.
Three people have been fined and placed on a no-fly list since the China Air Transport Association introduced the national system in February.
The identities of the offenders were not made public.
The bans were handed out for reckless behaviour on board a flight or at an airport - refusing to switch off a tablet PC while landing, hitting a checkpoint security officer with a milk can and attacking airline personnel over a flight delay, the China Daily quoted authorities as saying.
The punishment means the three passengers can not book flights on five major airlines, including Air China, China Southern and China Eastern, which together operate about 80 per cent of routes in and out of China, for one to two years, depending on the severity of their offence, the report said.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China last year laid out 11 kinds of behaviour strictly prohibited on flights and at terminals, including creating disturbances at check-in counters, damaging airport security facilities and intimidating or assaulting crew members.
In December last year, a Chinese woman poured boiling water over a female flight attendant and punched the cabin windows on an AirAsia flight from Bangkok to Nanjing, Jiangsu province, due to a dispute over seating arrangements.
On January 10 last year, police removed 25 passengers from a plane in Kunming, Yunnan province, after they quarrelled with flight crew and opened emergency exits after growing angry over delays caused by bad weather.
