I was literally 40 hours in transit with lengthy delays in Beijing and Kunming. At the latter the pilot was a no show and the Chinese passengers became indignant, surrounding, yelling, castigating airline supervisors until they reluctantly committed to finding a replacement pilot. I got some good video footage of "standing in the fire" Chinese style... Marvin Wu, my Chinese trip coordinator recommended by a client and friend was on his cell phone handling all th...