{"id":4775,"date":"2011-04-25T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2011-04-25T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:55:00","slug":"struth-kung-fu-cabin-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/struth-kung-fu-cabin-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Kung Fu Cabin Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eAKIMka2Wgw\/TbTGgzvxOkI\/AAAAAAAAN9c\/AzqLBtQenMA\/s1600\/Hong%2BKong%2BAirlines%2Bcrew%2Blearn%2Bkung%2Bfu-730922.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eAKIMka2Wgw\/TbTGgzvxOkI\/AAAAAAAAN9c\/AzqLBtQenMA\/s320\/Hong%2BKong%2BAirlines%2Bcrew%2Blearn%2Bkung%2Bfu-730922.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599318503677049410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you&#8217;ll need to think twice in the future about behaving badly if you&#8217;re flying with Hong Kong Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Because their entire cabin crew are being taught kung fu (or as say call it wing chun,) a la Bruce Lee.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says cabin crew generally have to confront around three disruptive passengers a week, and in the first week of their kung fu training, crew on a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong put their newly acquired skills to work on a large, drunken passenger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Normally a female cabin crew can&#8217;t handle a fat guy, especially if he&#8217;s drunk, but because of the training, a crew member in this case handled him quite easily,&#8221; an airline spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong newspapers say the airline came up with the idea of training their crew in martial arts after members of management watched a demonstration by staff at a company function.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the actions such as blows thrown in quick succession, and known as &#8216;chain punching,&#8217; bring quick results,&#8221; the airline spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And some kicks that are traditionally kept below the waist can be, well, quite devastating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"visibility: hidden; display: inline;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you&#8217;ll need to think twice in the future about behaving badly if you&#8217;re flying with Hong Kong Airlines. Because their entire cabin crew are being taught kung fu (or as say call it wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376,377],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-david-ellis","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}