Cathay Pacific's 7 Hour Delay

We feel kind of bad posting this, because we really do love Cathay Pacific (comfy seats, good service, decent food, and they also sponsored the Asian-American and the SF Int'l Film Fests), but news is news: they had a plane stuck for seven hours at SFO Tuesday morning. The flight, with 400 passengers aboard, boarded around midnight, and was scheduled to take off for Hong Kong at 1:20 a.m., but ended up sitting on the tarmac until 7:30 a.m., when it was finally scrapped for mechanical problems.

Passengers reported there was no food or water and no information about the delay, while Cathay Pacific claimed everyone was happy and sleeping like lambs. They did let some folks off at around 4 a.m. to get juice, but only 50 people left. (You know the other 350 people were like, "as soon as I leave, this plane is taking OFF!").

And, because we can't do anything without mentioning Oh No Ed Jew around here, we'd like to note: we think this is probably the flight Tapioca Ed took on his escape to China last month. Ed could have just gone home to Burlingame if this were him!