Don’t you know who I am? Chinese ‘professor’ berates airline staff for refusing to allow her to board after she was late for flight
Passenger who told airport staff she was an academic threatened to hit woman who refused to let her go through the gate
A woman who missed her flight at an airport in northwest China was filmed threatening to assault airline employees and told them she should be allowed to board because she was a university professor.
Footage of the woman threatening to beat a woman at the Zhongchuan Lanzhou Airport in Gansu province after she was denied permission to board was widely shared on video news platform PearVideo on Wednesday.
Many users said they recognised the woman as an academic at Northwest Normal University in the city, but the university did not respond to requests to confirm her identity.
However, a student at the university said the clip of Friday’s heated row had been shared widely among her schoolmates.
“We all saw the video and everybody knows about it,” said the student, who was on duty at the general office of the university’s tourism college on Wednesday. She would not confirm if the woman was a professor at the university.