An employee of the Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL) casts her vote at the PAL office in Manila's Makati financial district September 22. The referendum, the key to saving the airline from closure, was held to get the workers' opinion on the management's offer for employees to own 20 percent of the airline in exchange for the 10-year suspension of labour bargainings. PAL, Asia's oldest national airline, announced last week it will be closing shop on September 23 after 57 years of operation.

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