FILE - Two Air New Zealand passenger jets taxi past each other at Sydney Airport on July 13, 2003. A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay on deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. Officials said on Friday, April 5, 2024, in incident after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland occurred in December last year and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man 600 Australian dollars for offensive behavior in February. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
FILE - Two Air New Zealand passenger jets taxi past each other at Sydney Airport on July 13, 2003. A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay on deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. Officials said on Friday, April 5, 2024, in incident after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland occurred in December last year and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man 600 Australian dollars for offensive behavior in February. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
MJM MDB MY RRSYDNEY (AP) — A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport.
The incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, occurred last December and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man 600 Australian dollars ($395) for offensive behavior in February, officials said Friday.
The incident only came to public attention on Friday, when New Zealand news website Stuff reported that a passenger in the same row, identified only as Hollv, said she had reported the behavior to the air crew.
She said she and her 15-year-old daughter were sitting in the aisle and middle seats when the man in the window seat, whose name has not been released, was urinating in a cup.
Holly said the plane had been on the tarmac for about 20 minutes, waiting for a terminal gate to be allocated, when she heard the unmistakable sound of the passenger urinating in a cup, Stuff reported.
She said the man was “obviously quite drunk†and spilled urine on a flight attendant as he left the plane, it reported.
But the mishap with the attendant wasn’t his crime. Australian Federal Police said in a statement that officers removed him from the plane because he had “urinated into a cup while in his seat.â€
Air New Zealand said it does not comment on individual incidents. It said it bans between five and 10 customers each month for disruptive behavior, including intoxication.
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