Beijing ( CNN ) Passengers who misbehave on commercial flights in China could soon find themselves grounded . After several highly publicized and embarrassing incidents of air rage , the Civil Aviation Administration of China said last week it is considering steps to blacklist offending passengers , according to state media . No final decision has been made on the proposed `` no fly list '' but it could lead to legal punishments . From hurling hot water at a flight attendant to fights over crying babies , outbursts by Chinese passengers have disrupted several flights in recent weeks -- both in China and further afield . In one of the most recent episodes , a flight departing a city in southwestern China was canceled after irate passengers opened three emergency exits following a seven-hour delay . James Fallows , aviation expert , journalist , and author of `` China Airborne '' , says the flurry of angry episodes reveals growing pains in China 's airline industry . Many newly prosperous travelers have never experienced the kind of travel headaches long familiar to the rest of us , he adds . `` It 's a nation of first-generation air travelers , '' Fallows said . `` All of the indoctrination and beating down the rest of us have had now for decades about how you have to behave in airports and airliners is coming as a new experience to a lot of people in China . '' Chronic delays . Chinese travelers also have to grapple with chronic delays in the country 's busiest air hubs . Fallows blames much of the misery on the Chinese military , which controls the vast majority of the country 's increasingly crowded airspace . Aviation authorities have opened new commercial flight routes in recent years in an effort to improve China 's abysmal on-time performance record and the government has approved a second international airport in Beijing to ease the congestion -- but these steps will take time to take effect . Fallows says Chinese culture also plays a role in the behavior of certain Chinese air travelers . `` It 's perhaps the most individualistic country I 've ever been in . It 's every person for himself or herself , '' he says . `` We 're seeing a lesson about how the people in China feel they have to behave . ''
China is considering blacklisting unruly passengers . Expert : Many newly prosperous Chinese unaccustomed to routine travel headaches . Chinese travelers also have to grapple with chronic delays in country 's busiest air hubs .