Recently, Ms. Zhao, who lives in Chengdu, plans to take a Vietnam Airlines flight to Nha Trang, Vietnam for vacation. But she never expected that before she set off, she encountered a heavy rain, which made the plane unable to fly. When the rain stopped, she was told her flight would have to wait 20 hours before taking off again. To Ms. Zhao's surprise, the reason given by the airline was that "the pilot needs to rest".

It is common to encounter flight delays when traveling and vacationing. Vietnam Airlines' Chengdu-Nha Trang flight took off after a 20-hour delay. The official explanation was that "the pilot needs to rest", which sounds novel. However, according to the "Regulations on Flight Time, Duty Time and Rest Time for Civil Aviation Transport Pilots", after each day (or any continuous 24 hours) flight, the flight crew must be arranged for a rest time twice as long as the flight time, and in any case shall not be less than 8 hours. It can be seen that if passengers have more common sense in this area, they may not be particularly entangled or "get angry" with some flight delays.

In the eyes of many Chinese travelers who travel by air, one of the reasons why they are puzzled by the reason for the flight delay of "pilots need to rest" may be that people have heard too much about "air control", and foreign airlines have given the above explanations At times, it is rare and strange to be a little uncomfortable. But in fact, strictly implementing the sleep requirements for civil aviation pilots is also an important part of ensuring the flight safety of the majority of passengers. Therefore, understanding, understanding and supporting airlines to do so should also become a kind of tourism literacy.

Generally speaking, by backing up the crew and other means, "pilots need to rest" is less likely to be the cause of flight delays. However, the aforementioned Vietnam Airlines has no branch in Chengdu, and no other crew members can be exchanged in case of bad weather, which caused the long delay of the flight. During this period, Vietnam Airlines communicated and negotiated with various travel agencies, and finally made a proper disposal of subsidy of 500 yuan per passenger. But I think, in addition to the timely and effective comfort provided by airlines to passengers, more and more tourists going abroad, especially those who fly to newly developed foreign hot tourist attractions, must also take into account the above problems in advance to avoid encountering Unable to relax after a difficult situation.

"Pilots should rest" should become common sense in tourism. It is conceivable that as Chinese people travel abroad and travel abroad, this kind of reason for flight delay, which is different from "air control", may often appear in the explanation of flight delays of foreign airlines. At this time, we should maintain a calm attitude of "in line with international standards", and we should not only fight for our legitimate rights and interests, but also understand that "pilots need to rest" is not a rhetoric to fool passengers. This is what matches our "international passenger" status. should have quality.

Of course, when traveling abroad, we hope that everything goes smoothly, but the safety awareness such as "pilots need to rest" should continue to become common sense of travel for Chinese tourists. The long delay of the Vietnam Airlines flight from Chengdu to Nha Trang, although it swept the interest of passengers on the flight, but it also inspired some domestic airlines to promote the travel common sense of "pilots need to rest" to passengers, whether they still To put in more active effort?