{"id":336,"date":"2017-05-06T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/06\/chinese-phd-student-banned-from-air-france-flights\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:39:28","slug":"chinese-phd-student-banned-from-air-france-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-phd-student-banned-from-air-france-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese PhD Student Banned From Air France Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A woman passenger has been placed in detention for 10 days and blacklisted by Air France after she slapped a member of staff at an airport in central China, Chinese media reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> A woman&nbsp;passenger has been placed in detention for 10 days and blacklisted by Air France after she slapped a staff member at an airport in central China, Chinese media reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FigY9Uzyy_VhLjuoGSdf4uOamnbM?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 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href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-phd-student-banned-from-air-france-flights\/#The_woman_seen_on_surveillance_camera_footage_striking_the_staff_member_Photo_C_hu\" title=\"The woman seen on surveillance camera footage striking the staff member. &nbsp;Photo:C hu\">The woman seen on surveillance camera footage striking the staff member. &nbsp;Photo:C hu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-phd-student-banned-from-air-france-flights\/#Photo_ctdsb\" title=\"Photo:ctdsb\">Photo:ctdsb<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Sina\"><\/span>Photo:Sina<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>The woman lost her temper after she was told by ground staff that check-in for her flight from Wuhan to Paris had closed fourteen minutes earlier on Thursday morning, the Wuhan Evening News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Staff advised her to alter or refund her tickets, but the woman refused saying she was about to go abroad to take part in an important conference.<\/p>\n<p>She then rushed to the staff working area and slapped a member of staff twice after negotiations failed, the report said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5c268eb2ea87458ec471ccae7cc6becf-sz_650056.gif\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fv4-EF8s3Bn42zjK9Mf2qPodHRrR?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"465\" height=\"291\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_woman_seen_on_surveillance_camera_footage_striking_the_staff_member_Photo_C_hu\"><\/span>The woman seen on surveillance camera footage striking the staff member. &nbsp;Photo:C hu <br \/><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Police were called and arrested the woman, whose real name was not given in the article.<\/p>\n<p>She has now been blacklisted from taking flights on Air France, The Beijing News reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FmHLdWqevovqv_6PtJSMOnG2Dhg_?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"407.47028862478777\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_ctdsb\"><\/span>Photo:ctdsb<br \/><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>The woman, a 36-year-old doctoral student from a prestigious university in Wuhan, was with her husband and child when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Internet users in China strongly criticized her actions and said harsher punishments should have been enforced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDomestic flight companies should also blacklist the woman &#8230; and all flights should refuse to take this kind of passenger,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another said: \u201cSo barbarous and wayward. 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