30 passengers at Kunming Airport in Yunnan blocked other flights due to flight delays

On the clean and smooth concrete floor, more than 30 people sat on the floor. Someone is holding a parasol, others are squinting with their mobile phones, and people are chatting or chatting alone.

The site of this scene is not a park, but a tarmac dedicated to foreign airport aircraft at Kunming Changshui.

A co-pilot of Xiang Peng Airlines saw this scene and was shocked to send a micro-blog: “The vicinity of the Changshui East-West Road has been captured... We were successfully delayed.”

The "attack" of the apron was the passenger who was delayed by the thunderstorm the night before. After being forced to stay at the airport, they once blocked the boarding gates of other flights. They had also "robbed the planes" of passengers on other flights. They even caused one plane to leave the plane without flying.

Now, they rushed out of the boarding gate and arrived at the apron of the airport.

After the incident subsided, it was reported that the “rights protection” that lasted 14 hours had caused cancellation of at least four flights and delays of six flights. These "rights protection" passengers are always righteous. Some passengers told the journalists who went to the interview that everything they did was trying to force the leaders of the airport or airline to “give it out”.

Others explained in more straightforward terms: "Since we can't go, then other planes can't go."

"Or don't fly together!"

In the early morning of August 6, Wu Jian, a passenger who planned to fly from Kunming to Xishuangbanna, suddenly discovered that at Gate 8 of the airport, more than 150 passengers surrounded a boarding gate more than one meter wide.

These passengers are all passengers of Western Airlines, but they have to take two different flights: One flight to Chongqing and one flight to Xishuangbanna. At the time, only one plane was parked outside the boarding gate, and two groups of passengers requested boarding at the same time.

According to the arrangements of Western Airlines, if there is no accident, the plane should pick up passengers flying to Xishuangbanna at 20:30 on the 5th, and then turn back to Kunming and pick up the passengers who fly to Chongqing at 23:55.

Due to a heavy rain, the flight was forced to delay until 24 o'clock in the evening before arriving in Kunming for the first time. At this time, the passengers who are preparing to go to Xishuangbanna have already waited for 4 hours, and even the departure time of the Chongqing passengers has already passed five minutes.

Wu Jian remembered that as soon as he saw a plane approaching the gate, he and the surrounding passengers immediately began to pack and prepare to board the plane. But at this time, more than a dozen passengers who were about to go to Chongqing suddenly rushed in and surrounded the boarding gate.

"This is our plane, we must fly first!" shouted the passengers.

Wang Fang, who is preparing to go to Chongqing, is one of the passengers who block the gate. She recalled that at the time she heard people say that the plane was "originally the first to take Chongqing passengers," so she quickly rushed over. Passengers in Xishuangbanna have firmly denied this. Someone responded unwillingly: "The plane is ours. Why should you block our boarding gate!"

"If we don't fly with you, don't we all fly together!" said the other.

Two batches of passengers did not give each other. They asked each other for a while, and after a while headed towards the staff at the check-in counter, they contended in unison. At first, everyone wanted to let the "leader give them a statement," but "leadership" didn't show up. Everyone asked, "Give me your leading mobile phone number and let us fight!"

Wang Fang recalled that in the face of a stalemate, a young man wearing glasses behind the counter was nervous and had a hard time.

Because of the long time of containment, the plane missed the departure time to Xishuangbanna. After coordinating with the airport, West Air decided to transfer the plane to Chongqing.

As a result, the young man with glasses just announced the news, and the roles of the two groups of passengers changed instantly. Passengers flying in Xishuangbanna rushed to the boarding gate and tried to block the way Chongqing passengers boarded the plane.

The scene was once again deadlocked. Some passengers are advised to find reporters for interviews, and some suggest “direct microblogs”. The airport security staff called 110 to call two police officers and did not persuade them afterwards.

"When two passengers are allocated, we arrange for them to leave. Another dial is blocked. We can't really do anything about it," said a West Air staff member.

After the results, no one was able to take the plane. At 4 a.m., the passengers suddenly stunned and found that the only plane outside the boarding gate left the airport empty.

"We can't go, you don't go!"

After the incident, Wang Fang explained to reporters that his "robbing the plane" was out of frustration. In her memory, passengers did not hear any broadcast about flight delays in the waiting area. It was not clear when the flight was scheduled to leave. The airport’s ground attendants were even more “asked”.

"We did not eat, did not drink, airport air conditioning did not shut overnight, we were terribly cold." Wang Fang said that at that time, a little boy also had nosebleeds.

However, in the description of Western Airlines, the situation was somewhat different that night. The relevant staff of the airline said that after the delay of the aircraft, they had provided passengers with meals and drinks for the plane; after the aircraft had left the plane, they provided accommodation to the passengers and promised that by 12:20 noon, the company would make up for it. Two planes were sent to pick up two groups of passengers.

Among the travelers to Xishuangbanna, some elderly people and children chose to stay at the hotel while others “had to wait at the airport”. Wu Jian remembered when someone said that if there were no leaders, they would continue to block the boarding gate tomorrow morning.

Travelers to Chongqing also have their own plans. Wang Fangjian said that the staff did not inform them of the exact time of departure, nor did they arrange accommodation for passengers flying in Chongqing. You can watch the Xishuangbanna passengers leaving for the hotel. The Chongqing tourists are secretly happy.

"They've gone better. There are planes. We'll be on first." Wang Fang said.

However, the aircraft did not arrive as quickly as predicted. The passengers sat on the chairs in the waiting area for several hours. The sky was slowly shining and there was no movement at the gate. Automatic drinking fountains had no water left. Wang Fang, who had not been asleep all night, felt more and more cold. She suspected she had a fever.

At 7 am, another flight from Kunming to Hefei started to board. It was found that someone boarded the plane and was "Xiapeng Airlines, the same group with West Airlines," and the passengers immediately throbbed.

"Chongqing people must work together!" I do not know who shouted, and soon, passengers who were about to go to Chongqing ran and blocked the boarding gate of Hefei passengers.

"You don't arrange us to board the plane, and don't board other passengers for boarding!" Someone shouted at the boarding gate. Others said to passengers who plan to go to Hefei: "We can't go, you don't want to go!"

In order to avoid the containment, Xiang Peng Airlines can only allow the boarding passengers to change the boarding gate three times. Every time, another batch of passengers always followed and once again blocked the boarding gate. Wang Fang recalls that at the time someone was yelling and yelling at the front. The whole team, except the old man and the children, "would have followed and gone."

In fact, at about the same time, Xishuangbanna passengers blocked another boarding gate. It was a flight unrelated to them. There were also a group of passengers planning to go to Hainan.

"What are you blocking our boarding gate? This is our plane!" Someone asked them in anger.

Wu Jian said that at that time everyone was running out of steam and was just thinking about “to force the leader to come out”: “We waited one night and arranged an airplane to take us away. It was too simple!” Wu Jian stressed, however. Most of the time, he is just observing or "tweeting."

When the Hainan passengers were arranged to change the boarding gate, Xishuangbanna passengers hurriedly chased it.

This morning, in the modern airport that has just been put into use in Kunming, this "cat and mouse" game lasted a total of one hour.

There are loopholes in the services of airports and airlines, and people lack understanding of the civil aviation industry.

Wu Jian said that he suddenly discovered that there were unexpectedly moving passengers on the tarmac. Through the floor-to-ceiling glass, Wu Jian saw more than 30 people on the tarmac. Someone was walking and some were running. Afterwards, many people simply sat down on the auxiliary taxiway with a yellow line.

When he recognized that these were the passengers flying in Chongqing, Wu Jian suddenly realized that "the nature of this incident has changed." "This kind of rights protection is too ill-advised! We will not be able to make such an outrageous thing." Wu Jian said.

Soon, Xishuangbanna passengers that had blocked the gates also retreated.

Nowadays, no one can say exactly how these passengers rushed into the apron. According to the announcement issued by Changshui Airport afterwards, these passengers got into a normal boarding passenger team and rushed out from the boarding gate No. 3. “The staff wanted to close the boarding gate in time, but it was too late to stop.”

Wang Fang remembered that at that time, a group of people chasing passengers from Cheung Peng Airlines went from the second floor to Gate 3 on the first floor. Everyone saw a door open beside the gate and there were no security guards. "It was easy to go out."

However, she insisted that she would not be able to step onto the apron.

A netizen named “TIAN-JIALU” was one of the passengers on the apron. She expressed her anger with a microblog: “We are still on the runway. Nobody cares about us. Only the police come to scare us! We sleep overnight, we don’t have water to drink! There is no one!”

On the platform of the Internet, some people have expressed their solidarity with her. Some have also accused her of "cannot use the illegal means to safeguard her rights." After she deleted Weibo, she changed her name.

Chen Ming, a Sichuan Airlines co-pilot, also saw the story of these passengers online. In his view, these disputes occur frequently, of course, with the airport and airline service loopholes, but more importantly, people do not know enough about the civil aviation industry.

“Some people do not understand why a delay takes three or four hours to process.” Chen Ming said, “Opening a plane is not like driving a car and you can drive it if you want to drive it. The takeoff and landing of a flight has to go through the Civil Aviation Administration, even the Air Force’s Reply."

In his experience, passengers and airlines and airports will inevitably have disputes after each flight delay due to weather or aircraft drop.

Similar to the "impact tarmac" incident in Kunming, it was also staged at airports in Shanghai and Guangzhou in April this year. At that time, someone was lying on the ground and blocked the passage of the shuttle bus. There were also people heading towards a taxiing plane and trying to “stop it”.

Later, after the airport’s staff persuaded the passengers to return to the boarding gate.

In contrast, passengers in Kunming have a higher "treatment". After sitting on the tarmac for more than an hour, several airport shuttle buses approached passengers on the apron and surrounded them all. Subsequently, the Civil Aviation Yunnan Regulatory Bureau and the Airport Public Security Bureau also urgently deployed relevant personnel to disperse passengers on the apron. At about 9:40, all passengers left the tarmac and returned to the terminal.

Although they have not yet waited for the plane to leave, it seems to the passengers that they have finally waited for "relevant leadership." The passengers who flew to Chongqing immediately took the lead to negotiate compensation on the first floor. After getting the news, the passengers of Feixi Shuangbanna also ran out and pulled the leaders to the 2nd floor to negotiate with them.

Until the plane was finally reached, the storm still did not stop. On the flight to Chongqing, many passengers began to feel that the compensation of 400 yuan per person was too small. They protested for a long time and then let the airline adjust the compensation amount to 500 yuan per person.

On the flight to Xishuangbanna, some passengers still felt that they couldn't swallow it. Someone started to pick up other passengers and returned the compensation. "I was trapped in the airport for more than 10 hours and sent us 400 yuan to buy us. Why?"

But Wu Jian did not finally agree. After a night of exhaustion, he just wanted to take a rest.

"Too tired, don't do it." He waved his hand and said.

After blocking the boarding gate from zero, they finally got on the plane at around two o'clock in 14 hours. However, a staff member of West Air helped these passengers calculate another account: If the zero-point flight can take off on time and go to Xishuangbanna, then both passengers will be able to arrive home before dawn.

Next:Installation, use and regulation of marine diesel generator sets
Previous:Supermarket mix chicken drug ass was bought by the main owner was arrested for 10 days