Philippine Airline flights are canceled because of Pilot mass-resignation. Pilots and flight attendants don't feel safe to work for an airline with a persistent mass labor disputes because the quality of service in the aircraft maintenance becomes doubtful. If I remember it right, there was a time in the past when an aircraft crashed while the airline employees are on the height of a labor dispute.
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