Daily Archives: 08/07/2010

PEK -> EWR

(Community Matters) Following Steven’s flight from Beijing to Newark

updated:  this better:

flight progress

.

though I’m a bit confused since I thought the flight comes west over the north pole.

There was a bit of drama last night (yesterday morning their time) as his Xiamen to Beijing flight was grounded for a couple of hours, a group of passengers were loudly complaining about the lack of a non-pork breakfast option and the cabin temperature rose and young Chinese men started taking off their shirts (Steven and I would have a different interpretation of the latter).