KING NU ZU

‘King nu zu’ is not the name of some African potentate, but it is the phrase coined by Chinese airline attendants to describe unruly passengers that attack them over anger at frequent delays. ‘King nu zu’ literally means ‘air rage tribe.’ Chinese airlines have the worst on-time records of all the world’s air carriers and passengers take their rage out on flight attendants and airport staff with an average of three physical attacks per week.

CHINESE AIR CREWS LEARN KUNG FU TO COMBAT ATTACKS FROM ANGRY PASSENGERS DUBBED THE ‘AIR RAGE TRIBE’ WHO ARE INCENSED BY DELAYS
Hong Kong Airlines will teach cabin crews wing chun, a form of Kung Fu, because they have experienced on average three attacks from passengers a week

By Jaymi McCann

Mail Online
July 29, 2013

A Chinese airline has introduced Kung Fu training for their staff after a series of attacks on air stewards.

Hong Kong Airlines said that they will teach their cabin crews wing chun, a form of Kung Fu after they experienced on average three attacks per week, reported.

Attacks have been reported at airports across the country as they struggle to maintain flight times.

Frustrated passengers have taken their anger out on airport staff and cabin crew after a summer of delays.

The staff have even invented a new phrase to describe the irate passengers, ‘king nu zu’, which translates as ‘air rage tribe’, reported The Telegraph.

Only 18 per cent of the 22,000 flights from Beijing’s Capital airport ran on time, according to the aviation research company FlightStats, the worst in the world.

No Chinese airports managed to get more than 50 per cent of flights to run on time.

There have been at least eight protests at departure gates in two months.

More than 30 passengers stormed security and ran onto the runway on July 18 after bad weather caused seven hours of delays.

In another incident, two airport staff were injured when a passenger attempted to rip off an attendant’s name badge.

One of the injured staff members Ni Xuying said: ‘The passengers were very emotional and unstable.’

A primary teacher, Liu Weiwei, also reportedly lost control in June, when her flight from Wenzhou to Beijing was cancelled. She slapped and kicked an Air China attendant.

She said the reason she did it was that no one offered her any refreshments.

Sudden air traffic flowing into air ways that are controlled by the People’s Liberation Army is one of the reasons for the issue.

This is aggravated when bad weather forces airlines to delay or cancel flights.