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    Tidbits from China

    Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong’s flagship airline, is struggling to recover from Covid lockdowns and Beijing’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
    Before China rewrote the rules for Hong Cong as an autonomies zone Cathay Pacific business class was the best of any airline

    As China’s young people face record unemployment, our columnist writes, the Communist Party is telling them to embrace hardship.
    I guess that might be better than telling them to eat cake
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    I thought the title was about my eBay orders..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandman View Post
    I thought the title was about my eBay orders..
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quick research shows them having record highs as well as record lows. It says something an airline can lose billions of dollars a year and remain solvent.

    I remember the little things - like the time Wifey and I were in line at a Hong Kong airport when our flight was delayed. Extra Cathay Pacific staff were called in and they served us tea and hors d'oeuvres to make up for it. They acted like the sky was falling - for something that barely changed our schedule.

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