A Japan Airlines airplane takes off during a groundbreaking ceremony for a second terminal of the Incheon Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul September 26, 2013. South Korea's Incheon Airport has begun a $4.6 billion expansion to increase its passenger hand
IN PHOTO: A Japan Airlines airplane takes off during a groundbreaking ceremony for a second terminal of the Incheon Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul September 26, 2013. South Korea's Incheon Airport has begun a $4.6 billion expansion to increase its passenger handling capacity 41 percent by 2017, to better compete in an Asian race to become a regional hub. Incheon joins rivals such as Singapore Changi Airport who are expanding to capitalise on increased traffic in Asia. Incheon is also looking to accommodate an influx of people arriving for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea's Pyeongchang county. Reuters
A Japan Airlines airplane takes off during a groundbreaking ceremony for a second terminal of the Incheon Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul September 26, 2013. South Korea's Incheon Airport has begun a $4.6 billion expansion to increase its passenger handling capacity 41 percent by 2017, to better compete in an Asian race to become a regional hub. Incheon joins rivals such as Singapore Changi Airport who are expanding to capitalise on increased traffic in Asia. Incheon is also looking to accommodate an influx of people arriving for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea's Pyeongchang county. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)

A day after unintentionally elevating macadamia nuts as reason for air rage, a chastised Korean Air executive resigned from her post. Cho Hyun-ah quit her job as vice president responsible for cabin service on Tuesday.

On Monday, her bratty behaviour became viral as the story of her anger over being served macadamia nuts in a plastic bag instead of a plate while flying business class hit the headlines. However, more than the failure of the purser to follow airline etiquette, what stood out in this episode is that she took over command of the plane by order the purser off the plane even if the jet was already on the runway and about to take off.

Her anger over what critics called "stupid macadamia nuts" delayed the plane's departure from the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City by 20 minutes and its arrival by 11 minutes to Seoul, South Korea.

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Another issue that it has raised is if it breached aviation safety just to give in to the whims of an airline executive perceived as an example of "overbearing behavior by the offspring of the moneyed elite," as Associated Press described the incident.

The 40-year-old Cho is the eldest child of Cho Yang-ho, the chairman of Korean Air. She has two siblings who are also executives in the air carrier which is 10 percent owned by their family. Despite her resignation, Cho would likely not be jobless since their family owns conglomerates, called chaebol in South Korea, with business interests in travel, logistics, hotel and leisure enterprises where she could still throw her weight around when things don't go her way like what happened on her way back to Seoul aboard Flight KE086.

While Cho spared her company and family from further embarrassment by resigning, she is not off the hook yet because a South Korean civic group, the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, said it would file a complaint against the bratty female executive with prosecutors.

The group said, "The anger and the concern from the public were so big because safety and procedures related to important services were simply ignored."