If you’ve been with us since 2012, you’ll remember a troubling incident on a Delta flight that incited the National Center and our supporters across the country to take action.
Our Executive Director Dawn Hawkins witnessed a man viewing graphic pornography of what appeared to be very young girls. She confronted him, but at the time, the crew did nothing to address the issue. Interestingly, she was traveling to give a talk on the connection between pornography and sex trafficking!
Dawn initiated an activism campaign and the National Center (then Morality in Media) got Delta, as well as all other major commercial airlines except for American Airlines, to reinforce their policy regarding no pornography on planes.
However, business owner and reporter Angela Zatopek had an almost identical experience on a Delta flight just a few nights ago. She confronted the man, and brought the issue to the attention of the flight crew. They told her nothing could be done and to file a complaint later online.
We have sent a letter to Delta asking what their current policy is on this issue and how they are training their crewmembers to deal with it. No one should be subjected to such exploitive imagery on a commercial flight, and the airlines have the capacity to adopt and enforce a better, clearer policy.
Would you like porn with those pretzels? @Delta didn’t address passenger who was watching porn last night, so I did. Extremely explicit material in plain view and I’ve researched MANY other similar cases where airlines are taking a backseat on complaints, how is this okay? pic.twitter.com/vDWtR1B2E8
— Angela Zatopek (@AngelaZatopek) December 11, 2017
TWEET: Hey @Delta please train crews to stop passengers watching porn on flights! It creates a hostile public place #PornFreePlanes
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