China starts huge airport building project as air traffic grows
Beijing
AN angry mob ransacks a terminal. A frustrated passenger tries to leave the plane while it taxis. A pilot, who has had it up to here, advises fliers to leave the plane and mill about the tarmac - and they do.
Welcome to China's unfriendly skies. The world's second-largest economy boasts some of the world's worst flight delays and missed connections. Angry passengers have become such a fixture of flying in China that the government has developed a blacklist for the dangerously unruly.
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