Don’t Get Banned: China’s Behavior Blacklist For Flying

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A total of 169 people made it to the country’s first passenger blacklist for flights and trains, released on June 1 by China’s aviation authority. 86 of them were banned from flying for a year for the following reasons:

* Bringing banned items on board such as lighters, knives, tear gas, electro shockers, handcuffs, and bullets

* Using other people’s IDs to take flights

* Picking quarrels on the plane

* Disobeying cabin orders

* Smoking on the plane

There are nine kinds of actions that can get you banned from flights in total. According to an earlier announcement from the aviation authority in March, in addition to the previously breached rules above, they also include the following:

* Making up and spreading terror information

* Forceful boarding, intercepting an aircraft, intruding on the pilot cabin, aisle or pantry area

* Hindering or inciting others to hinder boarding and security checks, or attacking others

* Stealing other people’s belongings in the cabin

People in China are taking a lot more flights than the past few years, thanks to the growing need for spending, the convenience, and the rise of a slew of Chinese budget airlines. In some cases, passengers new to flying have been behaving, well…badly. China is turning to one of its favorite gambits to deal with this headache: a blacklist.

The blacklist didn’t elaborate on the specific kinds of disruptions or quarrels caused by the passengers. But the list comes after multiple reports of uncouth behaviour by Chinese passengers both at home and abroad in recent years. In 2017, there were two cases of elderly Chinese passengers tossing coins into the planes’ engines. In one, an 80-year-old woman tossed coins into the engines because she believed it would keep the journey safe—instead, the flight was delayed for six hours.

It’s a step up from an earlier blacklist by China’s National Tourism Bureau in 2016, which shared information about passengers fined for misconduct on flights with travel agencies and airlines, as well as storing the names for one to five years.

The remaining people on the blacklist were barred from taking trains for reasons including smoking and travelling without a ticket.

What do you think about the blacklist? Do you think it will help reduce the bad behaviour?

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