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Passengers stage 18-hour sit in after flight is cancelled

Tuesday, 24 June 20143 min read

More than 70 passengers staged an 18-hour sit in on a Hong Kong Airlines plane after their flight was cancelled.

Most of the 200 customers who were on board the flight to Shanghai on Friday night accepted the offer of a transfer to a later flight.

But more than 70 passengers refused the compensation offer and only left the plane around 3pm on Saturday after the airline increased its compensation offer, reports the South China Morning Post.

One passenger said their protest was "not about the money", but the airline’s attitude, and that it should offer them "a reasonable amount of financial compensation".

It was the second Hong Kong sit-in the airline had faced in two months, after 31 passengers refused to leave a flight from Bali after an eight-hour delay.