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The Beijing government has released new airport rules to curb the growing number of conflicts taking place between passengers and carrier staff in the past years. The new rules seek to avoid airline security threats from irate passengers.
The new rules seek to impose discipline among airline passengers so that they do not engage in rash and potentially harmful behavior when irked with the carrier staff.
Under the new rule, passengers cannot just enter an airport-controlled area if they do not have an airport pass on hand. They also cannot enter a taxiway, board or occupy an aircraft forcibly, climb over and damage the protective fencing in the airports, and cause disorderly behavior that could lead to possible air transport security threats and ruin airport order.
The new list of regulations was released by Beijing's legal affairs office. All measures will be effective starting Jan. 1.
The measures also include an authorization for local executive departments to carry out administrative punishments for those who would violate these measures and commit other illegal actions.
"It is correct for the local government to entrust airport management with administrative punishments," stated Liu Weimin, director of the Civil Aviation Management Institution of China's Aviation Law Research Center.
Shanghai already has the same rules in place as early as 1999 when it comes to monitoring observance of regional regulations for the city's civil airports.
Beijing found the need to implement these new rules as instances of passengers encroaching on the tarmac or forcibly boarding increases, even though these cases are usually the result of conflicts with carrier staff.
Some passengers do not like it when there are delays in flights or cancellations, and proceed to engage in these unruly acts. Some airlines try to avoid trouble by compensating these passengers.
These new rules would make these acts illegal. However, airline managers are still asked to help passengers when delays or cancellations occur.
