Please, be reasonable about flight delays

CHINESE EMBASSY STAFF intervened and arranged for local accommodation to be provided after a group of irate Chinese passengers began shouting Chinese slogans and singing the national anthem in Tokyo airport on Jan 24 in protest at the detention of one unruly Chinese passenger angered over the delay of a flight to Shanghai. Chinese passengers of delayed flights then followed suit in Sri Lanka on Jan 27 and in Iran on Jan 28 after their flights were delayed. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

The Chinese passengers in all of the three cases contacted the local Chinese embassies for assistance, and through the mediation of the local embassy staff, the situations were resolved and all the Chinese passengers of the flights concerned were put up in local hotels.

While some netizens have claimed that it was "sensible" of the staff of the embassies to come to the airports to safeguard the passengers' legal interests, those passengers that shouted slogans or sang the national anthem together in the airport terminals to vent their frustration at the flight delays, actually closely guarded two secrets: That they were flying on low-cost, no-frills airlines where cheaper prices are at the expense of services, and that other passengers taking the same flights with them remained calm and didn't create a disturbance.