Reasoning being privacy.. it seems like a person should have no more expectation of privacy on a commercial flight than they would have at a grocery store.
It might be common courtesy to not generally film people at a commercial establishment, but I'm not sure there is legal standing unless the establishment is willing to go the trespass route to enforce a no filming rule or request.
It seems like a neutral zone in terms of privacy.. you have absolutely no privacy standing on a public street or walkway or in a park, etc. You have the utmost expectation in a private place, most notably your home (assuming you don't have doors and windows open where the confines are visible from a public area), could also include a private venue that does not welcome the general public to enter.
A person has the right to film in public under the 1st amendment.
This probably shouldn't be news unless Lufthansa is actually persuing some sort of legal action. They made a reasonable request to the passengers who in turn got the wrong idea from the way the request was initially communicated. Even if the intent from Lufthansa was to supress the event for PR, I'm not sure their actions should be considered unreasonable as turbulence is a force of nature which is difficult to predict. This isn't exactly a bus driver attempting to drive through a tornado. Its more like a the bus driver driving over some road in poor condition.
Honestly as long as Lufthansa offered basic medical aid, and otherwise aren't making a big ordeal of the recorded footage, I see them as being the victim of the decline of public intelligence in this situation.
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