Shanghai Airlines passengers, upset at a 24-hour delay on a flight to Taiwan, decided to clog things up even more by staging a sit-in on the plane after it finally arrived at Taipei's Songshan Airport. Flight FM80Y departed Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Saturday morning, but zipped around and returned to Shanghai right before it was supposed to have landed in Taipei. The pilot told passengers that the flight had been rerouted because of thunderstorms, but passengers insisted the pilot had flown back to Shanghai because "he was unhappy." A day later, when they finally got to the island, the passengers complained about the service attitude of Shanghai Airlines (which allegedly offered each one 400RMB in compensation), and refused to get off the plane in Taipei. After 30 minutes on the tarmac, Taiwan officials managed to persuade the protesters to leave. Strangely, this is not the first sit-in by Chinese airlines passengers we've heard of. Is this some new trend? Source: Taipei Times more ›

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