Before sun, sand and lots of fun, torture by flight delay

It seems that air travel in China is becoming the ordeal you must endure as a prerequisite for that well deserved holiday you are setting out on.

For proof of that you need look no further than this summer.

I began to become aware of the problem in mid-June when social media channels were increasingly taken up with complaints from people about flight delays. Many had to hang around in airport lounges for hours on end waiting for delayed flights, including sleeping in airports through the night waiting for flights the next day.