2013-07-29

Social mood at Chinese airports

We haven't hit the bottom yet in China, not by a long-shot.


Chinese airlines hit by air rage amid long delays
At the end of June, a primary school teacher lost control when her flight from Wenzhou to Beijing was cancelled, slapping and kicking an Air China attendant to the ground.

"I waited there for such a long time. Nobody served me a bottle of water or a piece of cake or anything, said Liu Weiwei in her defence. "They were poker-faced, with no response or explanation".

Other incidents have seen passengers faint on planes that were held on the runway for full days, and cabin crew assaulted by enraged customers.

In March, Graham Fewkes, a British businessman based in Hong Kong, told the South China Morning Post he had witnessed cheers when a man assaulted a stewardess on a delayed flight to the island of Sanya.

"I heard a punch, and looked up and he was attacking the stewardess," he said. "The other passengers were applauding as the man was hitting her. It was a crescendo of noise coming down the plane."

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