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Alaska Airlines To Cut Work Force, Flights - Seattle Times
alaska airlines is cutting its work force by up to 1,000 people, and its flying capacity by 8 percent. the seattle-based airline announced friday that record oil prices and a softening economy have forced the cutbacks. the reductions will mean about ...
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I Got The News Instantaneously, Oh Boy
wall street?s computer scientists keep trying to find quicker ways to react to the news. all this can go horribly wrong, as united airlines learned last week.
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Six-year-old Story Pops Up On Google News, Triggering United Airlines Share Price Collapse
three cheers for automated technology! the google news "googlebot" search routine decided last weekend that a six-year-old story regarding united airlines filing for bankruptcy was new and exciting.
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Continental Airlines Assessing Impact Of Hurricane Ike - Forbes
houston, sept. 13 /prnewswire-firstcall/ -- continental airlines (nyse: cal) is currently assessing the impact of hurricane ike at its facilities, including its houston hub at bush intercontinental airport (iah), its headquarters building in downtown ...
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Behind-closed-doors Plan To Rescue Xl Was Shot Down By Lenders - The Independent
banks scuppered a proposed three-way airlines tie-up that could have salvaged the collapsed xl leisure last month, while speculation is mounting that the failed group might already have a new owner. it is understood that management proposed the ...
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Sector Snap: Airlines Rise On Continental News
airline shares rose thursday as continental airlines inc. issued optimistic guidance for the rest of the year, an analyst said the sector is undervalued, and oil prices fell.
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S7 Airlines Makes Bid For Stake In Austrian Airlines
moscow, september 12 (itar-tass) - russia’s s7 airlines has made a bid for a stake in austrian airlines, the prime-tass business news agency said with reference to dow jones.
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Stranded Holidaymakers Return To Uk - Msn Uk News
thousands of holidaymakers left stranded by the collapse of britain's third largest tour operator have returned to the uk. the civil aviation authority (caa) said it had brought back 11,900 people on 52 flights as part of its attempt to repatriate ...
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Record Rains Soak Patience Of Chicago Travelers - Chicago Tribune
chicago - record rainfall on saturday stranded motorists, temporarily shut down the major roadway to o'hare international airport and caused the cancellation of one of the city's largest ethnic festivals. the torrential rains also led the ...
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American Airlines Asks Pilots To Stay
american airlines has decided not to go on with a pilot cut.
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Who's To Blame? Google Or Tribune For United Airlines Stock Drop
if you haven't seen my coverage of the google news error aids in united airlines stock drop at search engine land, let me bring you up to speed in a couple lines. earlier this week, google's news crawler crawled florida sun-sentinel website to find a link to an article that discussed united airlines filing for bankruptcy. the article was actually an old story, but had no date, so google ...
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Milwaukee Auction To Feature Zoo Animals' Art - Chicago Tribune
milwaukee - artwork created by zoo animals around the nation will be auctioned tuesday in milwaukee. the unusual auction will raise money for the zoos to help with wildlife conservation efforts. the artists include two milwaukee county zoo penguins ...
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Xl Holiday Firm Collapse: Victims Fly Home As Anger Mounts - Daily Telegraph
xl passengers stranded in greece vent their anger. ; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1488655367/bctid1791628102 http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1139053637 a mass airlift to bring back some of the 85,000 tourists caught out ...
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Continental Airlines Suspends Houston Flights Sunday; Change Flights At Continental.com For No Fee
continental airlines has suspended operations at its houston hub at bush intercontinental airport through sunday, sept. 14, due to the condition of airport facilities and related infrastructure in the aftermath of hurricane ike.
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American Airlines Won't Furlough Pilots During Cuts
american airlines won't furlough any pilots as it trims about 6,840 jobs to stem losses from record fuel costs. a larger-than-expected number of early retirements and military and personal leaves means it won't need layoffs through summer 2009, the airline said in a message to pilots. amr's american had planned to furlough as many as 200 pilots.
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Italy's National Airline Alitalia May Stop Flights Because It Cannot ... - Daily Telegraph
the company, which has been in deep trouble for more than a year, said it would cut back the number of flights to save money and try to pay bills. besides outstanding fuel payments it also owes money to hotels where pilots and cabin crew stay during ...
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90,000 Stranded By Tour Company Collapse - News.com.au
the collapse of british travel giant xl spells trouble for cheap package holidays across the world. a huge airlift is under way to take home almost 90,000 people stranded abroad after britain's third-biggest tour operator went bust. the travel group ...
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United Airlines Hammered By Old News
a nearly 6-year-old news story on the 2002 bankruptcy filing of united airlines resurfaced on the internet on monday, clobbering the airline's shares as some traders mistook the report as current and plausible news.
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Alaska Airlines Is Cutting Jobs, Flights
alaska airlines will slash its winter flight schedule — and its work force — after high fuel prices and the weak u.s. economy have caused it to lose tens of millions of dollars in the first half of this year.
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Economic Damage From Ike May Be Less Than Feared - San Diego Union-tribune
a small change in hurricane ike's course just before it crashed into the texas coast may have spared the state and the nation from significantly worse economic damage. the center of the storm appeared to miss the vital concentration of oil and ...
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