The airlines say it’s the result of severe weather, but passengers think horrendous delays at Shenzhen airport are caused by the Chinese military using civilian airspace for drills.
The anger boiled over this weekend when frustrated passengers and exasperated airline staff came to blows.
Guangdong Television quoted a Mr Shen saying:
My flight was delayed from 10 pm to 4am the next morning. At around 4 am, because of arguments with airline staff, they started to fight each other.
Here’s another passenger’s story:
We understand there is delay due to the bad weather conditions. What we want is just the truth. The airline staff shouldn’t tell us that the plane is in Guangzhou at 11:55, then in 5 minutes, they tell us it is actually over Hainan… will it be able to get here as fast as they say?
You can watch a news report of the melee here and check out photos below.
