Christep,

Yes this is Globalman AKA MR. HIRA, Thank you very much for your snide insensitive comments, I won't even bother to reply specifically to what you said, only to give you the suggestion that perhaps in future you should please think before you type.

Perhaps this exercise may help you to learn some empathy for others: Try parking your car in the sunshine on a hot summer's day in Hong Kong and then switch off the air-conditioning and keep the windows closed. After four hours, tell me how you would feel.

But then again judging from your comments you already seem so full of hot air to begin with, I don't think you would even notice the heat.

My wife was good enough to spread out to the world the suffering of 222 passengers. The airline took a gamble with us, they gambled that they could fix something mid air that was clearly broken on the ground before takeoff (The air-conditioning), when they had other options (CHANGE THE PLANE OR FIX THE FAULT FIRST). We all suffered as a consequence.

You may ask, "What’s the big deal? We all lived after all!" But I can reply to you that the flight was utter torture, and there was no relief. Do we, in our society condone torture? The answer is of course no. How about torture where there is no physical damage done to the person tortured (types of torture that leave no physical mark)? The answer is of course no as well.

My wife was simply bringing that information to the attention of the world. Why did she do that? So that Cathay Pacific, which is a lovely airline almost all of the time, will be shamed to never ever gamble with passenger’s safety again. Considering the number of people I saw myself, who were succumbing to symptoms of heat exposure by the end, I only can Thank God that no person fell seriously ill.

She did give high praises to the SCMP regarding the crew, but they did not mention it, and so was beyond our control. We did complain to the airline about the incident, but we also wrote to the airline to give high praise to the way the crew handled everything. I really don't think even one single passenger on that flight took issue with any of the crew as far as I could see.

My wife is the passenger who went to the ISM and suggested that she use the Evian Spray from the restrooms to cool passengers down, which they did (they had plenty of stock inside), which was of benefit to every single passenger on that aircraft.

We fly 150k miles a year. We do this together (MR & MRS. HIRA) for 4 years now. Sometimes we can go through turbulence, or through long delays, we've even taken off and come back and landed 3 times now (separate incidents), but nothing has ever shaken us. However this flight shook us up. So much so we put our trip off by 1 week. We have never done that before.

So please don't go around poking fun in public at things that you really don't know about. It’s very rude, and reflects poor taste. Again I reiterate, in future please think before you type.