Italy – Strikes Jul 20 and 21

Pilots and flight attendants belonging to the 3 labour unions, call for a 24-hr strike on July 20th, across all airlines operating in the country, protesting their exclusion from talks on the Etihad-Alitalia deal. Public transportation workers will stage a 24-hour strike in Rome on July 21 potentially affecting bus, …

China and Vietnam – Super Typhoon Rammasun

Super Typhoon Rammasun continues to track northwestward towards China’s Hainan Island. The storm, currently packing maximum sustained winds of 135 knots (155 mph), is expected to weaken slightly as it makes landfall on the southeastern corner of Guangdong Province’s Leizhou Peninsula later that evening. Rammasun is then expected to hit …

Japan and Taiwan – Tropical Storm

Tropical Depression 10W has strengthened into a tropical storm early July 18 and is forecast to become a typhoon by July 20. Projections indicate that the system will pass just east of Miyako-jima with maximum sustained winds of 95 knots (109 mph) before moving into the East China Sea early …