Many Vietnamese passengers have been fined for violations such as false bomb threats, opening emergency doors or using mobile phones on planes.
Passengers who frivolously open emergency exit cause big losses
Some of these incidents caused delays of flights and threatened aviation safety. For example one passenger named Mai Thi Minh Ha was banned from flights for refusing to turn off his phone on a plane. Ha was banned from flying for four months on September 28. Three other passengers have been put under special security supervision for one month for falsely saying that there was a bomb in their luggage.
On March 16, the switchboard of Jetstar Pacific received threat by phone saying one of their aircraft would be hit by a rocket. Apparently a 32-year-old passenger from Thanh Hoa Province was late for a Jetstar Pacific’s flight from HCM City to Vinh. The passenger did not want to wait for the next flight and pay the additional VND450,000. It seems the passenger decided to try to delay the flight another way. The call was made at 4:30pm on that day and is thought to have been made by the passenger’s acquaintance.
On June 12, a passenger named Le Nguyen Tuan Tung caused a three-hour delay to a VietJet Air flight by suggesting to staff that they check his bag for bombs.
Several other passengers were fined for other violations, including opening the emergency door for fun or in normal conditions. Airlines have said that when an emergency door was open, it costs as much as USD10,000 to re-roll the slide for the emergency exit.
Đăng ký: VietNam News