A couple and their 3-year-old son were booted off a flight leaving Bangkok recently after the parents refused to put the seatbelt on their toddler, according to reports yesterday in Chinese media.
After boarding a Cathay Pacific flight scheduled to depart for Hong Kong at 3:15pm, the mainland Chinese couple insisted that the child would sit on his mother’s lap after flight attendants asked the family to follow safety instructions.
In footage filmed by a passenger, an irritated woman (seen in black) intervened and told the crew to call the police after the father (in white) stood up and became belligerent, leading to a 27-minute delay.
“We are customers too,” the female passenger said in Cantonese. “Why are you allowed to harass the whole flight?”
The father remained defiant.
“If others keep harassing us, we will not leave the plane,” he responded.
As more cabin crew were called to handle to situation, the family cooperated and carried their boy off the plane.
Cathay Pacific said the decision was based on safety grounds, as the passengers refused to follow instructions from the cabin crew, South China Morning Post reported.
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