The unfriendly skies: Chinese pax outrageous behaviour

[Hvr]

What has made the Chinese skies so unfriendly? The week-long Chinese New Year holiday that ended February 15 is one cause. For many Chinese, this is the only time of year they are able to travel; not surprisingly, packed planes, overloaded air traffic control systems, frequent delays and very short tempers result.

Moreover, those planes are often packed with first-time flyers who bring high expectations of airline service - especially as compared with the low-level of service they might have experienced in China's much more popular but less expensive railway system.

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This seems to highlight a problem with air travellers the world over. Packed planes, not enough capacity to handle the traffic including ATC and even not knowing how to behave in public.

How long until it starts to happen here I wonder?

 

[elbarto]

This seems to highlight a problem with air travellers the world over. Packed planes, not enough capacity to handle the traffic including ATC and even not knowing how to behave in public.

How long until it starts to happen here I wonder?

Maybe you could fly Jetstar or Tiger and report back?

Another thing I don't get is why people (still) have high expectations when it comes to air travel?

 

[Hvr]

I've done several Jet* international flights and not seen this type of behaviour.

 

[dk4]

Ohhh, a whole new market for Australian tourism to exploit, bogans from China...

I can see economically depressed local operators licking their lips - "You thought the Aussie bogan market was big, just wait till the "upwardly mobile" Chinese bogans start to visit, in their millions" LOL

 

[Hvr]

Ohhh, a whole new market for Australian tourism to exploit, bogans from China...

I can see economically depressed local operators licking their lips - "You thought the Aussie bogan market was big, just wait till the "upwardly mobile" Chinese bogans start to visit, in their millions" LOL

We'll know when their interpreters fail and we see thousands of them arriving in Rooty Hill looking for some action, so to speak.

 

[Fantic125]

I was just in Shanghai and Hangzhou from Feb 28 to March 2 travelling by both plane and train, and certainly didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

The Chinese can be a bit pushy in queue's and counters, etc, but the only time I've seen something like described in the article was back in 2010 at CAN when a group of about 40 men crashed the (China Southern?) Lounge I was in and cleared it out of food and drink. There was lot's of shouting and yelling, with half of them locked in the lounge and half locked out. The staff took us out through one of the back entrances as quickly as possible.

 

[harvyk]

Another thing I don't get is why people (still) have high expectations when it comes to air travel?

It's simple, when was the last time you saw an ad for an airline showing a packed Y cabin, complete with the rude coughhole that only thinks of themselves, the screaming kid and the FA who gives you the company mandated smile but no more.

Every airline ad I've see will typically show the highest cabin available, show happy friendly people and never shows a pax getting out the credit card to pay for stuff which used to be free, is it any wonder that the stereotype of luxury in air travel persists?

 

[clarkkent]

I've seen feverish grabbing of mini wine bottles from the cart on a QF flight, squirreled away along their row and put into bags. The flight attendants were bemused by the eagerness.