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>Zhongguo Minhang (China Airlines, or Air China, or CAAC, or whatever
>the mainland one is called in English) is requiring their 20 or so
>top executives to be in the air at midnight on 31 Dec 1999. Zhao Bo,
>an official at the Chinese Ministry of Information Industries: "All
>the heads of the airlines have got to be in the air. We have to make
>sure there are no problems in aviation."
> [St. Petersburg Times 1999-01-15, via Edupage 1999-01-17.]

A difference between cultures. I bet the Japanese airline executives will be in the air over the Pacific without publicity on their own. No other possibility will occur to them. The American airline executives will be safe in bomb shelters. The Irish airline executives will be in the air over London. The Russian airline executives will be too drunk to know what day it is.

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