Asiana, Korean Air employees hold joint rally against their bosses

Hundreds of staff from South Korea‘s two rival air carriers held a rare joint rally late Sunday, blaming the companies’ top management for causing scandals that have evoked huge public outrage. More than 400 employees of Asiana Airlines and Korea Air Lines gathered in central Gwanghwamun to stage a rally condemning their chiefs Park Sam-koo and Cho Yang-ho, respectively. Asiana staff denounced Park and his executives for massive in-flight meal service disruptions that led over 100 of its flights to take off without food for passengers for most of last week. The fiasco resulted in the suicide of the head of a supplier to Asian‘s new caterer that failed to produce food on time. Protesters from the rival airline Korean Air joined the demonstration, the second rally by Asiana employees following a candlelight vigil on Friday. Sunday’s joint rally was to voice their united call for measures to prevent such managerial errors and misconduct from happening again and also to call on their chiefs to take full legal and ethical responsibility, they said. <br/>