United Has a Pornography Problem
Jennifer Billock February 06, 2020
You’ve heard horror stories about it: people on flights watching explicit pornography in the seat right next to you. Or across the aisle, or in another row… wherever it’s happening, you don’t want to see it or be around it. United Airlines has taken steps to address the problem on their own aircraft.
United Airlines has a problem. A pornography problem. It seems that passengers want to watch porn pretty frequently when flying with United. Passengers have been discovered watching porn in close quarters to children, and crew has been accused of sexually harassing women. It’s gotten so bad that it landed the airline on a watchlist.
The 2019 Dirty Dozen List
The Dirty Dozen List is maintained by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)—and United ended up on the list in 2019. The list named 12 contributors to sexual exploitation in the country; it shared a spot on the list with companies like Amazon, Twitter, and HBO.
“Sexual harassment includes but is not limited to, unwanted sexual advances or attention including physical actions, speech, and viewing pornography in-flight,” the NCOSE said on its website about the problems at United. “While cases of these actions have occurred on virtually every airline, United Airlines aircrews have apparently received ineffective training due to consistent failures in addressing sexually harassing actions, speech, or pornography-use. For example, United Airlines appears to have struggled with protecting flight crews and passengers alike from sexual harassment.”
Getting Clean
In response to getting put on the Dirty Dozen list, United recognized it has a problem, and then took measures to fix it. The airline made efforts to focus on training in order to fix the problem.
“Sexual harassment, inappropriate behavior, intimidation or predation have absolutely no place anywhere in our society—including, and especially, in our industry and on our aircraft,” United said in a statement. “In 2018, we strengthened our training for flight attendants to recognize, 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. We recognize the need to continue the discussion among all of our workgroups to further ensure that our policies reflect our values and safeguard those traveling with us.”
As a result of United’s effort to put staff training front and center, the NCOSE has decided to remove the airline from the Dirty Dozen List for now.
Not surprised that UNITED made the porno problem list...UNITED is just an all-around trash airline...allows porno on flights, steals PAX's miles, puts customers in non-reclining seats half-glued to the aft bulkhead...etc., etc., etc. Trash from start to finish...the Unfriendly Skies of UNITED...
I agree with it being "click bait" sounds like United is being "singled out" when this stuff happens on all airlines(when it even does). The chances of people viewing porn on flights is extremely low.
Nothing but click bait. I've flown about 2000 flights in the last 15 years. How many flights have I seen another passenger watching porn? Zero. I'm sure it happens but so infrequently to be considered a statistical anomaly. Anyway, when it does happen, I would think the correct response would be to summon an FA and I would suspect in 99% of the time they would handle it appropriately.
I'm shaking my head reading this. United had on its IFE various seasons of Game of Thrones, and one episode had an extended full screen shot of some guy examining his junk for warts. Back in the old days ('98-99), I used to bring my portable DVD player on flights with my own entertainment. I never watched anything pornographic, but I do recall when the nude scenes came up in Fast Times in Ridgemont High, necks were craning in the seats around me. No one complained though.
m44, you are an idiot. There was absolutely no abuse of power. That comment had no business being posted in this thread as it does not apply to porn on a plane. I've been 1K or platinum for several years on United and never saw anyone watching porn on the plane. Is this really a problem on United, or are United passengers taking it upon them selves to report bad behavior more than passengers on other airlines?