Protest rights do not extend to on board an airplane

Stuff reported:

Australian student Jasmine Pilbrow has been banned from any Qantas flights after staging an impromptu protest about the transfer and deportation of a Tamil man to Sri Lanka on board Qantas flight 838 last month.

Now this would be outraegous if her protest had been outside the airport, or outside a Qantas office. But it wasn’t.

Pilbrow, who had boarded the plane, refused to sit down until the refugee, 25-year-old Puvaneethan, was taken off the plane on February 2.

A plane is not a place for sit ins or protests. Of course Qantas will ban you from their (private) flights if you disrupt a flight, inconveniencing every other passenger.