China Habits

24 March 2017 // Friday

So my one and only China flight for this month: Chongqing (CKG).

Never an easy flight when you see China. The chaos start from boarding where they all scramble to find their seats, change their seats, anyhow sit at other people's seats. I once briefed three passengers at the emergency row but turned out that three seats didn't belong to them after all.

Come on, your seat number is printed on your boarding passes, or you thought it was a free-seating flight? I can forgive you for that :)

But changing of seats? Even after multiple "warnings" telling them to change seats after take off, seemingly they never really get my point. Maybe I wasn't speaking Chinese? Hmm.

So the battle continues after take off. Other than rude remarks (like calling us "eh") and rude actions (like videoing everything we are doing and poking us whenever we walk past them), there's tons of side orders and I wonder how do these people hang out on a daily basis. So chaotic.

So one passenger told me she lost her gold bracelet and since she's quite nice I decided to help her (I'm kidding I still help them even if they are rude haha) so I took down her details and couldn't help wondering how could anyone even lose a 999k gold bracelet. And what's worse was that she didn't even know where she lost it. How to help her?

Another story about PPS comes in here. PPS passengers who love to book Economy seats but ask for Business Class privileges are a**holes. They know that we wouldn't outright reject them since they were of a "certain" status so passengers like my 5C insisted on using the jcl toilet (which obviously he shouldn't) but the annoying part was how he stood at jcl and refused to budge even though one crew "accidentally" rejected him, not knowing he was a PPS.

Whether or not they are a**holes, you judge.

On any China flight, also don't forget to keep a lookout on the toilet queue. Well actually the toilets. It looks like a battlefield after almost every other passenger. I wonder how do they actually use the toilet to make it so messy.

That's why we are cleaners onboard too :(