Airline apologizes for showing R-rated film on every screen during flight

Australian hose Qantas has apologized to passengers aft an R-rated movie was broadcast to each in-flight amusement surface during a travel from Sydney to Tokyo.

Travellers connected committee the level Saturday were told method difficulties meant individual movie enactment was not available for the planetary flight.

Crew members took requests from flyers for 1 movie enactment to play crossed each of the rider screens, and yet selected the Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn-led movie Daddio. 

The movie, released successful 2023, is rated R for big language. enactment and nudity, and includes a country wherever photos of a woman’s breasts and a prosthetic penis are shown connected a telephone screen. The movie takes spot astir exclusively during a taxi thrust and sees its stars sermon important relationships successful their characters’ lives.

Individual screens could not beryllium paused, dimmed oregon turned disconnected by passengers.

In a statement, a Qantas spokesperson expressed regret implicit the movie choice.

“The movie was intelligibly not suitable to play for the full formation and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience,” Qantas said. “All screens were changed to a household affable movie for the remainder of the flight, which is our modular signifier for the uncommon cases wherever idiosyncratic movie enactment isn’t possible.”

Qantas said it is reviewing the incident. It is unclear if the unit members were alert the movie was rated R earlier it was screened.

On Reddit, 1 idiosyncratic who claimed they were connected committee the formation said the “extremely inappropriate” movie played for astir an hr earlier it was turned off.

“It was super uncomfortable for everyone, particularly with families and kids onboard,” they wrote.

Beyond the passengers who expressed upset implicit the awkward movie-watching experience, headlines astir the Qantas apology provoked jokes online.

Air New Zealand seized the accidental to boast its ain in-flight amusement options and joked connected societal media, “Plot twist: We fto you take your movies.”