Mega missed flight meltdown

Update on March 6, 2009 by Frank@OBOW

Hong Kong - A Chinese woman passenger whose temper tantrum when she missed a flight from Hong Kong was watched by 5 million YouTube viewers has been given an apology and a free upgrade, the airline said Thursday. An airline employee who filmed the middle-aged woman throwing herself on the floor in a three-minute screaming fit when she arrived at the boarding gate too late to board a flight to San Francisco has also been disciplined, Cathay Pacific said.

Comments

[Steve]

Interesting.

The way I read that is that they apologized because it was an airline employee that filmed her and it then ended up on the internet, thereby potentially embarrassing her.

I guess that's a legitimate thing to apologize for. I don't think they would have apologized if she had been filmed by somebody else, at least I hope they wouldn't. She was late, and as upsetting as it is to miss a flight, she behaved badly.

[Eric]

Wow, three minutes? I only needed about 10 seconds of that. :)

[Frank@OBOW]

My apologies - I couldn't help it.

[Buzz]

Oh, she got upset because she missed a flight. I thought it was because a gate agent wanted her to check her carry-on.......:)

[Paula S]

In Canada, she'd have probably been Taser'd......to death.

We never get to witness anything like her at departure gates, it would certainly pass the time quickly. ;-)