Originally Posted by
roastpuff
This is why, Chinese airlines are always the last resort for me! The Chinese ATC has to bow to the demands of the military so they can close off routes and airspace indiscriminately, and you never know what's going to happen! Without fluent Mandarin, it would have been much worse too.
I would have endured Scoot, myself, but I do want to point out that the PLA is much less of an issue these days, in the sense that they rarely do drills on commercial flight paths. That having been said, they still control ~90% of China's airspace, so the flight paths themselves are quite narrow, and whenever bad weather hits, spacing requirements are increased.