Irate tourists can get physical.
“On Friday, Mar 28, an irate Chinese tourist named Xue Weilang allegedly punched a policeman after a chartered Cebu Pacific flight to Shanghai was forced to return to the Kalibo International Airport due to low visibility,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report pointed out that “the aircraft and pilots were rented by a tour company, which in turn sold the airline seats to the Chinese tourists.”
Xue’s group reportedly confronted the Cebu Pacific’s Captain Johnny Tinto and co-pilot Richard Avila at the Kalibo airport. They had surrounded them. The policeman (whose name was not mentioned in the report) stepped in to prevent a brawl. Instead, he was the one who got punched.
Xue ended up getting handcuffed. He was brought to a nearby police stayion for questioning due to being arrogant and disrespectful to the pilots. Xue was presumably later released, as the chartered Kalibo-Shanghai flight proceeded that same evening.
