{"id":578995,"date":"2023-05-24T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=578995"},"modified":"2023-05-24T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T03:32:45","slug":"cathay-pacific-apologises-after-passenger-alleges-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cathay-pacific-apologises-after-passenger-alleges-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathay Pacific apologises after passenger alleges discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd apologised after a passenger accused its flight attendants of discriminating against non-English speakers, prompting China&#8217;s state media to criticise the airline for &#8220;worshipping foreigners&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cathay said the experience of passengers travelling on its CX987 flight from the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu to Hong Kong caused &#8220;widespread concern&#8221; and said it sincerely apologised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have suspended the flight attendants concerned and launched an internal investigation,&#8221; the airline said, adding that any &#8220;inappropriate words and deeds&#8221; that violated its rules and professional ethics would be dealt with seriously once confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd apologised after a passenger accused its flight attendants of discriminating against non-English speakers, prompting China&#8217;s state media to criticise the airline for &#8220;worshipping foreigners&#8221;. Cathay said the experience of passengers travelling on its CX987 flight from the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu to Hong Kong caused &#8220;widespread concern&#8221; and said it sincerely apologised. &#8220;We have suspended the flight attendants concerned and launched an internal investigation,&#8221; the airline said, adding that any &#8220;inappropriate words and deeds&#8221; that violated its rules and professional ethics would be dealt with seriously once confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}