Offloaded passenger fired from his job
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THE unruly Chinese passenger, who was forcibly evicted from a United Airlines flight at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Sunday, has been fired from his job.
The passenger, Lu Yong, was a guest professor at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
The university issued a statement on its Weibo account yesterday and confirmed he was teaching at the university as a guest professor since August.
The statement also claimed that Lu was also the director of Internet Finance Research Center at the university.
As per the contract, Lu was supposed to teach and work on research in the university for four months every year.
The statement said Lu was also an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State University in the United States.
He worked in the Information Sciences and Technology department of the Hazleton Campus in Pennsylvania.
Southwestern University said it expects ethical conduct from its teachers and does not tolerate unlawful behavior.
It therefore chose to terminate its relationship with Lu.
On Sunday, after boarding Flight UA087 bound for New York, Lu demanded a seat upgrade. When it was refused, he went and occupied a seat assigned to another passenger.
Despite requests from the crew to go back to his seat, Lu refused to budge. The captain called the police to have him evicted from the aircraft.
Three police officers then tried to reason with him and then forcibly removed him from the aircraft.
Lu has been detained and faces charges of assaulting police officers and deliberately obstructing public activity.
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