I can't believe that a seasoned business traveler didn't check his ticket's destination as soon as the ticket was issued. This doesn't make any sense to me at all. What kind of crap airline was he flying on? I've flown on many flights, on many different airlines, throughout Asia and they always come on before takeoff and give you info in English about the flight and destination even if it isn't an American airline.
I'm still thinking about this. If he flew out of Hong Kong, that's a big airport. When you go to the gate they always have the flight's destination on the board above the gate counters at international airports. Was this guy just sleep walking all the way onto the plane?
Not only that, he lands in a town a only few hundred miles from Beijing or Shanghai, certainly within a one day train ride of a major international airport, in a city of 1.5 million people, and he's acting like they left him off over by the Afghan border. One would expect an employee of Intel to be more, well, intelligent.