Chinese travellers angry over flight delay slap face and throw food at airline employee

Photographs that reportedly show Chinese passengers beating up a member of an airline’s check-in staff after becoming irritated by a flight delay have triggered heated online discussion on the mainland.

The China Youth Daily reported that Capital Airlines’ flight from Beijing to Changsha was delayed on Sunday night because of bad weather.

Several passengers became angry about the delay and reportedly humiliated a women working for the airline at Beijing Capital International Airport after their demand to meet the airline’s representative was rejected, the article said.

One angry woman reportedly threw the contents of her takeaway meal box over the employee while a man was said to have slapped the employee’s face, the article said.

The man then shouted, “What’s wrong with beating you up?”, and then smashed a few objects at the entrance to the airport boarding gate, the report said.