Quirky China: Hainan Airlines managers given cold shoulder, kids make-up not edible says regulator, boy teaches litterbug a lesson
- Senior managers from a Chinese airline were made to stand in the freezing Beijing night air as punishment for forcing flight attendants to wear summer uniforms
- Children’s make-up is for the face, not the mouth says regulator despite cosmetic companies claiming it is edible
Managers from a Chinese airline were made to stand in the freezing cold as punishment for forcing flight attendants to wear summer uniforms despite temperatures dropping significantly across the country last week.
Eight Hainan Airlines executives were flown from the airlines’ headquarters on the tropical island of Hainan, to Beijing on Saturday evening, the China Business News reported.
After their plane landed, they were told to stand outside for 40 minutes to have a first-hand experience of Beijing’s autumn chill. Temperatures had dropped to around zero degrees that night.
The incident was triggered after a passenger sent a photo to Gu Gang, party secretary of the company, which showed a female flight attendant from the company dressed in a thin summer uniform and visibly cold while waiting for a bus in the night air in Beijing.
Although Gu immediately told management to allow attendants to change to winter uniforms, a week later he discovered the attendants were still in summer uniforms.