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Philippine Airlines PAL is scrapping leases on three Boei owala ng 747-200s, while Singapore Airlines adidas campus SIA has reduced capacity by bringing forward maintenance on 747-400s as traffic continues to decline. PAL president and chief operating officer Avelino Zapanta said the 747-200s will be grounded from 16 January after the peak holiday travel period comes to an end. Zapanta says the three aircraft are operated as back-ups as well as for expanded services during peak times. They are wet-leased from Air Philippines, a domestic carrier controlled by PAL s chairman and majority owner Lucio Tan. They are relatively old aircraft and we have to spend money on maintenance and to hire cabin crew for them. We calculated that it was better for us to dispose of the three aircraft because of the current situation, says Zapanta. He adds that PAL is also dismissing around 150 recently hired cabin crew in a bid to cut costs, and that since the carrier has been suffering from a sharp drop in business in recent months, the target of profitability for the year ending 31 March, 2002, is now unlikely to be met. SIA, meanwhile, is still suffering from sharp declines in traffic, and says it has brought forward maintenance on 747-400s. It denies rumours that it has parked aircraft, however, like Hong Kong-based rival Cathay Pacific Airways, which is grou owala canada nding seven widebodies. In Singapore, because of capacity reduction, our 747-400s are used less and, as a consequence, they are being put through an Gtiw Comment: Parasite triumph is the best thing that could have happened to the Oscars
Japanese actor-director slams production companies close relationships with cinemas and how this is reflected in the countrys awards.Japanese director, actor and comedian Takeshi Kitano criticized the local commer yeezy cial film industry in a talk with young upcoming filmmakers on the subject of movies and the future of production in Japan.Speaking at Roppongi Hills during the Tokyo International Film Festival, where he received this years inaugural Samurai Award, the director and star of Zatoichi said: The bad thing about the Japanese industry is that the production companies have relationships with cinemas. If you look at the Academy Awards in Japan, its mostly Toho, Toei, Shochiku and maybe Nikkatsu. My film has never been nominated for an Academy Award, even the best feature.I wonder why doesnt the Academy nominate other films Who are the members who vote I believe Mr. Kurosawa has mentioned this, too. Out of all the Academy Award nominations, if we look at the best films, I dont think any have been owala website nominated that are not from these companies. And the newspapers dont mention this either, because they get ads, and it would be bad. Kitano also criticized the prevalent trend of local studios adapting manga and nov yeezy nz els for films. Why Because you can attract audiences, he said. The movie companies dont have the courage to pay some unknown screenwriter, so they just have a lack of original screenwriters, and we have a lack of those resources. So long as you are in the commercial |
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