Mobissimo

We could add to the woes of American Airlines and their cancelled flights, but we won't 1) because we really like American Airlines and 2) fixing potentially unsafe airplanes is the main priority.  China.  What can you really say?  The torch relay problems, Tibet, recalls - China needs to hire Paris Hilton's Elliot Mintz to handle their PR.  Here's one that I really like though.  China has no unions, obviously since there is no need in a communist country.  A recent act by several pilots to protest labour policies is indeed a major occurence for China.  Expect these upstarts to be 'vanished' shortly.  More here via The International Herald Tribune.

SHANGHAI, China: China Eastern Airlines has suspended two executives and some pilots who allegedly disrupted flights to express grievances over labor policies.

The Shanghai-based airline issued a statement late Monday confirming that 21 flights in southwestern China's Yunnan province were intentionally disrupted on March 31, a rare show of defiance in a country that bans unauthorized labor organizing.