This was what happened on Saturday in Hong kong when the boy band Wanna One step on board a plane from Korean Air destination Seoul.
Three enthusiastic fans, two from mainland china and one from Hong kong, had bought tickets in first class, business class and economy class.
They ignored on calls to sit still in their seats and surrounded, with posters of the band in the hands, their idols in the boy band.
After meeting and shooting, they asked the flight crew to leave the planet without giving any particular reason – except that an urgent matter has popped up. The airline couldn’t do anything else than to grant a full refund of the fullprisbiljetterna.
to the company for security reasons, was forced to vacate the entire cabin of the 360 passengers, for them to go through security again. And for the delay of an hour was Korean Air fines.
Afterwards, called the three fans for the ”idiots” in the south Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo.
K-pop is an abbreviation of Korean pop, a popular music genre from south Korea that has spread in Asia.
It was not the first time the ardent admirers utilized a airline refund policy after meeting their idols. But it was so far as known the first time that all the other passengers in the plane had to go through security again.
the chinese fans to book themselves on the same flight as their idols. Before landing rushed from their seats in economy class up to first class where they filmed their journey with the heroes. The incident, which caused delays at the airport in Beijing by two hours, came to be known as #CrazyFansCausedFlightDelayed and was seen by 123 million online viewers.
After the recent event in Hong kong Korean Air decided to start charging a extra fee of the equivalent of about 1.600 sek for passengers who cancel an international trip after having gone through the procedures prior to a flight.
