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Vietnam woman fined $300 for kicking airline employee over hand luggage row

Vietnam woman fined $300 for kicking airline employee over hand luggage row

Saturday, June 13, 2015, 09:33 GMT+7

A Vietnamese woman has been fined more than US$300 for kicking a male airline staffer at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the thigh on Thursday.

Ngo Thi Thu Dong, 36, from the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, was subject to a VND7.5 million (US$344) fine for causing disorder at the airport, the Southern Airports Authority (SAA) said Friday.

On June 11,  Dong was carrying procedures for taking Flight VJ811 of the Vietnamese budget carrier Vietjet Air to Singapore when a ground service employee found her carrying two bags weighing 23 kg in toltal and a 4-kg stroller, even though she took no baby along with her.

The aviation staff told her that her hand luggage could only weigh 7kg at most, and that no stroller is allowed to be onboard unless it is accompanied by a baby.

As the staffer insisted that Dong comply with the regulations, the woman stroke her hand on the staffer’s desk and shouted that she only deposited her two bags and would continue carrying the stroller with her. A VietJet Air representative then showed up and explained relevant regulations to her. Dong then said she would leave the stroller for her relative to keep, which turned out to be a lie.

Dong was still carrying the pram as she waited to board the plane, prompting a male airline staffer on duty to stopped her from boarding, and gave the same explanation to her.

Dong then became furious and shouted obscene words at the staffer.

Not only when the carrier warned that she would not allowed to board if she insisted on carrying the stroller with her did the angry woman agree to leaving the stroller behind.

Dong indeed left the pram behind, but as soon as she passed the gate, she returned and kicked the staffer who had stopped her in the thigh before rushing to an airport bus.

Airport security officers immediately came and forced Dong to get out of the bus. They then escorted her to their office for making a report about her offenses. Last month, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam issued a decision to impose a six-month flight ban on Nguyen Thi Hang, 35, who slapped Nguyen Thanh Nguyen, a staffer of VietJet Air, on the face at the same airport  on April 7.

On that day, after completing procedures, Hang arrived at gate no. 16 of the domestic terminal to board a VietJet Air flight to Hanoi, bringing with her two handbags.

At that time, Nguyen realized that the total weight of the woman’s hand luggage might have exceeded the 7kg cap, so he requested that Hang have her baggage measured and weighed again.

Even though she put the luggage on the scale again, Hang still did not agree with Nguyen’s request and thus slapped him on the face.

On April 11, the SAA fined Hang the same fine (VND7.5 million) for her administrative violation.

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