Our newest YouTube uber-celebrity coined her fame by throwing the most amazing hissy fit ever over a travel delay. It took place in the Hong Kong International Airport, which has been praised by NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman as the sort of place that makes one embarrassed about the state of America’s airports:
Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, low-ceilinged arrival hall was cramped, and using a luggage cart cost $3. (Couldn’t we Americans at least supply foreign visitors with a free luggage cart, like other major airports in the world?) As I looked around at this dingy room, it reminded of somewhere I had been before. Then I remembered: It was the luggage hall in the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. It closed in 1998.
So consider it proof that the majestic and vastly superior air travel facilities in Asia are not quite enough to keep everybody calmly inspired during their journey.
Who knows, in a miserable depressing warren of an airport like Kennedy, she might have just shrugged and glumly accepted her fate.
February 17th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Hilarious, of course. But according to the MSNBC article, she’s upset about missing her flight, not about a travel delay.
February 17th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Well, yes, semantics, I guess. She got a later flight, so missing the plane amounted to a delay.
A translated version of this must exist — anyone seen one?
-Jebediah