Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways has banned a couple for harassing a mainland Chinese woman who refused to put up her reclined seat.

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways has banned a couple seen in a viral video harassing a mainland Chinese woman who refused to put up her reclined seat.

Cathay Pacific has banned a Hong Kong couple from its flights after a row with a mainland Chinese traveller over her reclining seat.

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airwayshas apologised and banned two Cantonese-speaking passengers after a mainland Chinese traveller complained they insulted her and made discriminatory remarks during a flight earlier this week.

A video of the incident shows a couple taunting, using vulgar gestures and jostling the chair of a female passenger who reclined her seat on a long-haul flight.

A couple on a Cathay Pacific flight to London heckled a woman in front who declined to straighten her seat. The airline put them on its no-fly list.

Cathay Pacific has banned a Hong Kong couple from its flights after their row with a mainland Chinese traveller over her reclining seat. The Chinese woman had complained on social media that she was harassed by the couple seated behind her on a Cathay flight after reclining her seat.

Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has banned two passengers from its flights after an argument over seat-reclining etiquette descended into xenophobic insults.