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Flight attendants with Shanghai Airlines receive gifts of bottled mineral water from Tibet Glacier Mineral Water Company on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Several hundred Taiwan passengers will drink Tibetan "holy water" during their flight back to Taiwan on the Mid-Autumn Festival Cross-Straits Charter Flights that start operation on Friday. [Photo: cnsphoto]Shanghai Airlines, along with three other Taiwan airline companies, announced a first-ever service of offering passengers Tibetan "holy water" during this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Cross-Straits Charter Flights.China News Service reports that the Tibet Glacier Mineral Water Company gave representatives from these four airline companies bottled mineral water specially made for passengers aboard a plane on Tuesday.Having contributed to making mineral water from Tibet, which is 5,100 meters above the sea level, available on the charter flights, a Taiwan businessman surnamed Luo says Taiwan business pe...

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