Hong Kong Airlines' flight attendants take kung fu training
Almaty. April 20. Kazakhstan Today - Hong Kong Airlines is encouraging its new flight attendants to study a form of kung fu, called wing chun, according to the South China Morning Post, Kazakhstan Today reports.
In the ultimate piece of in-flight entertainment, a Hong Kong airline has begun training its cabin crew in the deadly martial art secrets of wing chun, The Australian reported.
The kung-fu training regime, part sales gimmick and part sign of the times, has been introduced to address drunken violence on aircraft between Hong Kong and mainland China.
A promotional video has been released to familiarise Hong Kong Airlines passengers with the novel idea that their stewardess's hands are not only expert dispensers of drinks and mixed nuts but are also deadly weapons. In it a woman elegantly dressed in the airlines uniform flails her hands like a wing chun master over a map of the routes served by the airline.
She is later seen subduing a troublesome passenger, to the gratitude of the woman whom he had been harassing before the kung fu flight attendant saved the day with a stranglehold. Real incidents of this type, said an airline spokeswoman, occur about three times each week.
Wing chun is viewed as the perfect martial art for in-flight use because its movements are swift and it can be practised in a confined space. Its history is based on the legend of a woman who uses the martial art to extricate herself from an un-wanted courtship.
Photo: The Australian
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