Results tagged “shanghaiairlines”

• 'Two shot dead' by Chinese police [BBC] "Two ethnic Uighurs have been shot dead by police in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang province, officials have said. A government statement announced that a third "lawbreaker" had been injured. A reporter with Hong Kong's RTHK radio said two police officers were also shot in a confrontation in a Uighur district of the city."
• China to sack officials who mishandle protests [Reuters] "Chinese officials who mishandle protests could be removed from their posts, state media said Monday, a week after demonstrations in the capital of Xinjiang degenerated into ethnic attacks. New regulations on accountability issued over the weekend hold officials responsible if misconduct leads to serious accidents, group protests or other serious incidents, state news agency Xinhua reported."
• Attacks on China's diplomatic missions well-orchestrated [China Daily] "Hurling stones, Molotov cocktails and burning Chinese national flags, supporters of the East Turkestan separatists started well-orchestrated and sometimes violent attacks on Chinese embassies and consulates in several countries soon after the riots occurred last Sunday in China's northwest city of Urumqi that killed 184 people."

Shanghai Airlines passengers, upset at a 24-hour delay on a flight to Taiwan, decided to clog things up even more by staging a sit-in on the plane after it finally arrived at Taipei's Songshan Airport. Flight FM80Y departed Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Saturday morning, but zipped around and returned to Shanghai right before it was supposed to have landed in Taipei. The pilot told passengers that the flight had been rerouted because of thunderstorms, but passengers insisted the pilot had flown back to Shanghai because "he was unhappy." A day later, when they finally got to the island, the passengers complained about the service attitude of Shanghai Airlines (which allegedly offered each one 400RMB in compensation), and refused to get off the plane in Taipei. After 30 minutes on the tarmac, Taiwan officials managed to persuade the protesters to leave. Strangely, this is not the first sit-in by Chinese airlines passengers we've heard of. Is this some new trend? Source: Taipei Times

• James Fallows puts the spotlight on a writer currently quarantined in Shanghai, who is experiencing a nightmare of helpless frustration in the face of such illogical preventative measures (current Shanghaiist editors hope they won't be facing something similar on entry). [The Atlantic]
• Schools around Shanghai are now being ordered to equip computers with the Green Dam software, effectively guaranteeing that they'll be infected by malware. [Shanghai Daily]
• China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines might be merging soon, which means that over 50% of air travel in the city will soon be under one company. [Bloomberg]

"Today Beijing took baby steps in that direction by opening for debate a draft proposal to reform the country’s troubled health care system, reduce the profit motive for public institutions and make health care available to all, according to state news agency Xinhua."

Beginning Oct 29, Shanghai Airlines will fly passengers to Mumbai (or Bombay), possibly the most exotic destination in its network yet. As far as we understand, the only other way to get to Mumbai previously is with Indian carrier Jet Airways which takes passengers from India via Shanghai to San Francisco. Xinhua offers details of the Shanghai-Mumbai schedule:

The airline will fly Boeing 767s on flight FM847, leaving Shanghai Pudong airport at 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday and Saturday and arriving at Bombay at 9:40 p.m. local time. Return flight FM848 will depart Bombay at 11:10 p.m. and reach Shanghai at 7:40 a.m. the next day.

"Coca-Cola Co plans to seek approval under China's antitrust law for its $2.5 billion bid for top domestic juice maker Huiyuan, the final obstacle to what would be the largest foreign takeover of a local firm."

Fasten your seat belts, this is not a test. Guangzhou Daily brings us this news today that on July 4th, Shanghai Airlines flight FM9105 encountered serious turbulence leaving twenty passengers injured on their flight from Shanghai to Beijing.

After a successful month running at reduced capacity, the new Terminal 2 at Pudong Airport took another 18 airlines under its wing today.

Air transport AFP: Air China, Shanghai Airlines join Star Alliance XFN: China Eastern says partnership with Singapore Airlines, Temasek 'only option' AFP: Singapore Airlines says won't raise China Eastern bid Finance Reuters: U.S. says China recognises need for stronger yuan NYT: Little Headway With China on Finance FT: Beijing lectures US on effect of weak dollar Drugs, drugs and drugs AP: China Shuts Down Leukemia Drug Maker Xinhua: China issues new drug recall method...

Okay, Shanghaiist has got several hundred blogs on his RSS that he scans through everyday. Some things scream at us, others are quickly forgotten and yet others are hidden in some corner of our brain for (mostly useless) information ready to be used at some future point in time. There are all these bloggers that you've never met personally that you can form an impression of only after a long period of reading their blogs. You're reading them every single day, and sometimes it almost feels as though they're your friend, even though you don't really know them. It's most surreal.

In other Shanghaiist news, our favourite media blog Danwei has offered your correspondent a very special Toilet Bowl Award as part of their recent Model Worker's Awards for "posting regularly about news that no one else is finding, and translating some of the more interesting stuff on the Chinese Internet". We have also been singled out for our "excellent contribution to the toilet sector, for the posts Shanghai artist's Nike poo, and especially for the video displayed at this page: New bidet that doubles as enema and colon cleanser." We wish we could take all the credit for it but the first story came in as a tip while the second one was a quite a boo-boo on our part. We've actually since unpublished the post (but somehow it still appears), reason being, one of our colleagues already wrote about it earlier this year. Anyhow, we shall graciously accept our toilet bowl and promise to polish it religiously.

Not content with making cars and computers for the world, China is now on to its next big thing -- aircraft. The long-awaited ARJ-21 (pictured here) is China's very first homegrown commercial aircraft and has been launched amid much fanfare by the aircraft maker AVIC I. Now only a name is lacking, and if you can come up with a creative Chinese name of between two and four Chinese characters before September 28, RMB50,000 will be yours! (Sorry apparently English names are worth nothing).

Shanghaiist is somewhat of a frequent flyer to Beijing, and because he isn't employed by some big multinational but rather runs his own little business, he can only afford to put himself on cattle class and often has to scour the internet for the cheapest available deals. We especially love this nifty little function on eLong.com which shows you the cheapest available flight within a week of your selected departure date. That has worked to our advantage in the past because we have relatively flexible schedules, and we have flown to Beijing for as low as RMB530 (that's RMB400 for the ticket and RMB130 for miscellaneous taxes) on Hainan Airlines.

Photo from ojour.

Airplane manufacturer Boeing's headquarters in Everett, Washington was Hu Jintao's first stop in America because of the lucrative deal that China planned to sign. China has been a boon to Boeing, says the New York Times:

are stepping into a cockpit near you. Eight foreigners from the US, Norway, Venezuela and the Philippines now fly the friendly skies for our city's favorite airline, a sign that a nation-wide shortage of Chinese pilots has finally come home to roost.