AIR passengers watching hardcore pornography on their personal devices – sometimes even in front of children – has soared in recent years.
In fact, it has become such a big problem that airlines are having to provide special training to cabin crew to help deal with the issue.
United Airlines was forced to give its cabin crew the specialist training after it briefly made the National Center on Sexual Exploitation's (NCOSE) "2019 Dirty Dozen List".
The NCOSE list is intended to name and shame the companies that "facilitate sexual exploitation" in the US.
United was the only airline to make the list and was accused by NCOSE of having a "sexually hostile environment" on board because of the people watching porn on board.
NCOSE explained: "In recent years, incidents have soared of passengers viewing hardcore pornography on their personal devices (even in front of children!) in tight, closed quarters, leaving fellow passengers and flight crew feeling unsafe, emotionally triggered, and victim to sexual harassment.
"Many reports expressed that United Airlines' flight attendants appeared to be particularly ill-suited for these situations."
In response, United Airlines has promised to do more to help flight attendants keep pornography out of plane cabins.
The airline said: "Sexual harassment, inappropriate behaviour, intimidation or predation have absolutely no place anywhere in our society — including, and especially, in our industry and on our aircraft.
"In 2018, we strengthened our training for flight attendants to recognise, address and respond to instances of sexual harassment of any kind on board our aircraft and will continue to adapt and enhance this training moving forward."
It added: "We recognise the need to continue the discussion among all of our workgroups to further ensure that our policies reflect our values and safeguard those travelling with us."
NCOSE said it removed United from its Dirty Dozen list for choosing to prioritise the staff training.
In January, a Colorado woman said she was denied entry to her United flight because her outfit was “too revealing,” she wrote on social media.
The incensed woman, who goes by the name “Andrea Worldwide” on Facebook, recently wrote a lengthy post about how a male United Airlines employee stopped her before boarding her flight earlier in the month at Denver International Airport and asked her to “step aside.”
A passenger was left horrified after they realised the person sitting next to them was watching porn and masturbating during the flight.
Another man previously complained that a passenger was reading porn next to him on a flight.
Sun Online Travel has contacted United for comment.
A version of this article was originally published by Fox Business and was reproduced with permission.
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