The photo, which circulated via social media posts amid recent flight delays and cancellations in Philippine airports, was taken in 2018 in Vietnam
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A photo shows Japan Airlines staff at the Manila International Airport bowing to passengers to apologize for flight delays.The claim was made in a July 20 post that has 191,000 reactions, 5,500 comments, and 11,000 shares as of writing. The photo started circulating a day after the July 19. The page that posted the said photo has 79,000 followers. Other Facebook pages reposted the picture on July 23 with the same caption.
According to the posts, JAL employees lined up and bowed to passengers to apologize for flight delays. While the photo is pixelated, employees wearing white and light blue uniforms can be seen in front of the check-in counters.. The timing of the misleading post implies that the actions of the airport staff done in response to the cyber outage; several comments on the posts made reference to that outage and praised the supposed “Japanese” staff for “apologizing” over the incident.
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