Read: http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7472378
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aGyk0oJz1PkY&refer=asia

Direct flights, between China and Taiwan, are long overdue. It seems almost fitting to break the ice on the Lunar New Year jubilee. Strife across the strait is apparently waning and direct flights may ease political tensions. After all, there has always been common ground.

As a kid studying in Taiwan during High School, I thought it was ironic that the two most ethnically and geographically-close regions refused to fly directly. Human pride blinds convenience and compromise, and forces us to wait in the airport four hours longer.

hi i like direct flight lo~

This makes Chinaman so happy!

http://www.lanconnect-gmbh.de/images/chinaman.jpg

An Asian guy was trying to exchange yen for dollars and asked the teller, "why it change, yestoday I get two hunat dollar fo yen - today I get a hunat eighty?"

The teller says - "fluctuations"

The Chinese guy says "fluc you white guys too"!

Spain and Gibraltar.
No direct flight, and no right of any flight from England to Gib to fly over Spain with less than a certain distance from the ground. (Planes must fly over the sea on approach)

Human pride yeah. :rolleyes:

Bitter bastards :P