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I forgot to make up for the blog I missed on Monday.

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I feel smug.
But then there's sort of a sting in the tail.
Not good.

Anyways, Oasis has shut down all operations. I'd like to say I TOLD YOU SO!

Well, honestly, everyone that knows a tiny little bit about the aviation business would know that Oasis wouldn't have survived for long. Start-ups, unless backed by huge financial investors (or airlines), like Virgin America, in highly competitive markets don't go well.

People still don't get the idea, and always make start-up after start-up after start-up. And airline CEOs don't get the idea either. They always want to compete in 'prestigious' markets, regardless of actual profits.

For example, United Airlines operates (or operated, I don't know now) one daily JFK-NRT and JFK-LHR, which are two of the most 'prestigious' routes in the world. AA/BA and a couple of other airlines have more than 20 flights per day with the largest equipment on the JFK-LHR route, and UA thinks they can beat them with 1 flight? They probably could make more profit by using those 'prestigious' landing slots for another US-LHR flight.

However, the worst part of this is that my brother had a round-trip flight booked on Oasis, and now its gone. We most likely won't be getting our money back.

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I've heard Utada Hikaru's songs on the radio here in Vancouver actually. However, it was on the Cantonese Fairchild multicultural radio channels, and it was only a small clip of 'Time Will Tell'.

Also, I heard that there was a picture of Utada Hikaru's knees on the local 'Ming Pao' Chinese newspaper.

What happened was that Utada Hikaru got drunk, and then woke up the next day with bruises, and posted it on her blog. Ming Pao then used that as a story, I guess.

Oh, and the guy on the 'China Drives' show on China Radio International (or something like it) is actually from Vancouver! He's also a Canucks fan, apparently.

The Billboard Japanese correspondent is also from around here, and there was one woman who now works at CBC Radio 3 who used to work at Radio Television Hong Kong.