{"id":6461,"date":"2011-04-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/hong-kong-airlines-turns-to-kung-fu-to-deal-with-disruptive-passengers\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:24:04","slug":"hong-kong-airlines-turns-to-kung-fu-to-deal-with-disruptive-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/hong-kong-airlines-turns-to-kung-fu-to-deal-with-disruptive-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Airlines Turns to Kung Fu to Deal With Disruptive Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/hong-kong-airlines-hx\">Hong Kong Airlines<\/a> is asking its cabin crew to learn wing chun, a form of kung fu, as a way to deal with unruly passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On average, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/travel-deals\">airline deals<\/a> with three disruptive passengers a week, according to a spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The kung fu solution came about after a crew member recently used her personal training to deal with a drunk passenger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many cabin crewmembers are excited about the training. &#8220;You cannot predict what will happen on the plane, so wing chun is good because it&#8217;s so fast,&#8221; said new attendant, Lumpy TangTang, &#8220;I feel safer because I can defend myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/04\/hong-kong-airlines-kung-fu\/165519\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong Airlines is asking its cabin crew to learn wing chun, a form of kung fu, as a way to deal with unruly passengers. &nbsp; On average, the airline deals with three disruptive passengers a week, according to a spokeswoman. &nbsp; The kung fu solution came about after a crew member recently used her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908013,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions\/98908013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}