Flight Is Delayed After Passenger Refuses To Vacate Crew Member apos;s Seat

A passenger travelling on a domestic flight in caused a disruption when he sat in a crew member's seat and refused to move. 
The man was travelling on the Air China flight CA1226 from Guilin, Guangxi to Beijing on Sunday night when he deliberately sat in the wrong seat and was filmed bickering with flight attendants and kynghidongduong.vn other passengers.
Earlier media reports quoting witnesses said the incident directly caused a delay of two hours.

However, the airline issued a statement today saying that the man returned to his assigned seat after 10 minutes and the delay was caused by 'air traffic control and weather problems' instead. 
The man was travelling on the Air China flight CA1226 from Guilin, Guangxi to Beijing on Sunday night when he deliberately sat in the wrong seat and was filmed bickering with flight attendants and other passengers
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filmed by a witness and shared on Chinese microblogging site Weibo shows the unruly passenger arguing with flight staff and other people, refusing to budge.  
'You should follow the seat number on your ticket, do you understand?' another fellow passenger on the plane was heard saying to him. 
'You are jeopardising all of our safety,' another man was heard saying.
In the statement released today, Air China said the incident occurred as the flight was waiting for take-off.  
'Flight CA1226 was scheduled to take off at 21:40.

Due to air traffic control and weather problems, the flight took off on March 25 00:20 after a delay,' Air China said (file photo)
Footage filmed by a witness and shared on Chinese microblogging site Weibo shows the unruly passenger arguing with flight staff and other people, refusing to budge
'A passenger occupied a crew member's seat in the front row.

Following the crew and other passenger's advice, the passenger returned to his own seat. The entire incident lasted less than 10 minutes,' the statement on Weibo read. 
'Flight CA1226 was scheduled to take off at 21:40.
Due to air traffic control and weather problems, the flight took off at 00:20 on March 25 after a delay,' it added. 
The flight arrived safely in Beijing at 2:39am, the airline said, before reminding passengers to be courteous and follow public transport rules and regulations. 
News about 'seat thieves' who refuse to sit in their assigned seats on crowded trains and who are rude to staff have previously gone viral on social media, igniting national anger. 
News about 'seat thieves' who refuse to sit in their assigned seats on crowded trains and who are rude to staff have previously gone viral on social media, igniting national anger (file photo) 
Last August, a man on a high-speed train from Jinan, Shandong province to Beijing refused to vacate a seat that had been assigned to another woman, prompting a storm of criticism from internet users, who disclosed his ID card and Tour Quế Lâm từ Hà Nội full name online. 
Just a month later, a woman caused chaos on a train from Shanghai to Fuyang, Anhui province when she threw water at other passengers during an argument over the wrong seat she was in. 
In another incident, another passenger who refused to leave a window seat on a train from Yongzhou, Hunan to Shenzhen, Guangdong was barred from taking trains for 180 days and fined 200 yuan (£23). 
According to CCTV in January, officers investigated 2,856 cases of disruption of public order on the rail system and detained 452 train travellers. 
Such 'seat robbing' offences could affect a person's social credit score in China. 
The system, which rates people based on their daily behaviour, can disqualify people with poor ratings from flying or booking certain classes of travel on trains.