While you may despise Yammer, for those that can have a look and you'll see this is above MH and he is equally dumbfounded by the policy.
How long does it take people to realise, you're in bloody China and CX is not a western airline where flight operations has a dominant role. Remember the people calling the shots have virtually no concept of logic.
There's even a notice from staff travel / benefits center saying with immediate effect boarding gate closes at STD -10 so clearly a knee jerk reaction has come from way up, you know those skilled know it alls that don't have to be held responsible for the decisions they make.
So OP you may want to redirect your post as MH is the messenger.
Last edited by Avinthenews; 27th Sep 2015 at 16:46.