Airline apologises after film featuring sexting and nudity played to entire plane

The Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo saw the 18-rated film Daddio screened to all passengers onboard including children, with people unable to switch to another movie

A major airline has been forced to apologise after passengers, including families and young children, were shown a raunchy film on every screen of the plane.

Because of a technical issue on Qantas flight QF59 from Sydney to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, individual film selection was unavailable.

The only option was to play the same film, Daddio, starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, from a limited choice across every screen as people had no option to opt out of what was picked. Passengers were then subjected to the 18-rated film which features explicit sexual material, nudity and sexually-charged text messages.

The screening of the film, rated R in Australia meaning it is suitable only for people aged 18 and above, caused one passenger to take to Reddit to share their complaints. "Qantas played an inappropriate movie to the whole plane, there was no way to turn it off," they angrily shared on the forum.

"It was impossible to pause, dim, or turn it off. Here's the kicker: the movie they played was extremely inappropriate. It featured graphic nudity and a lot of sexting – the kind where you could literally read the texts on screen without needing headphones.

"It took almost an hour of this before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids on-board. Qantas is now reviewing how the movie was selected."

A spokesperson for the airline told the Daily Mail Australia: "The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologise to customers for this experience.

"All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn't possible."