Legal bid re-ignites airport favouritism row over Hong Kong leader and the bag his daughter left behind
Trio of flight attendants mount court challenge claiming security rules were breached to please city’s top family
Three flight attendants are making a legal bid set to reignite the favouritism row which engulfed Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and his family over a bag his daughter left behind at the city’s airport.
The trio of Hong Kong Dragon Airlines flight attendants want to overturn a ruling by the Airport Authority that security was not breached in March, when a bag the leader’s daughter left at check-in was taken to a boarding gate.
In a High Court writ filed on Friday, flight attendants Law Mei-mei, Cheng Lai-chu and Yiu Wing-shan make the claims in a judicial review application over the incident at Hong Kong International Airport between the night of March 27 and the early hours of the next day.
Leung and his wife Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee were accused of pressuring airport staff to deliver the bag to their daughter, Leung Chun-yan.
Leung was said to have told staff to address him as “Chief Executive Leung”, which he denied.
The luggage was screened unaccompanied by Chung-yan, before it was delivered to her, prompting questions whether security had been breached.
