American Eagle Airlines Reports December Traffic. - FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Eagle reported a December load factor of 70.2 percent - up 0.9 points compared to the same period last year.

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China Southern Reports $6.3 Million Fuel-Hedging Gain (Update1)

News | www.bloomberg.com | 23 hours 19 minutes ago

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- China Southern Airlines Co., Asia's biggest carrier by passenger numbers, made $6.3 million from fuel-hedging last year as prices surged to a record and then tumbled 70 percent.

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American Eagle Airlines Reports December Traffic

Press Release | www.aviationtoday.com | Jan 5, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Eagle reported a December load factor of 70.2 percent - up 0.9 points compared to the same period last year. Traffic decreased 12.4 percent year over year as capacity decreased 13.5 percent. American Eagle boarded 1.4 million passengers in

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QUICK-THINKING AIRLINE SAVES PASSENGERS FROM FOREIGN-LOOKING FAMILY

News | www.ridiculopathy.com | Jan 5, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Heroism takes many forms, and in this deceptively peaceful post-post-9/11 world, a truly heroic act sometimes means stepping outside the bounds of polite society- just as the Omelet of Freedom requires the breaking of a few thousand eggs, especially brown ones.

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Etihad bucks aviation downturn - Transportation - ArabianBusiness.com

News | www.arabianbusiness.com | Jan 4, 2009

Etihad enjoyed a 7% rise in seat occupancy last year, carrying a total of six million passengers.

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Airline Apologizes For Booting 9 Muslim Passengers From Flight

News | www.washingtonpost.com | Jan 3, 2009

A U.S. airline apologized yesterday to nine Muslim American passengers from the Washington area who were removed from a flight out of Reagan National Airport, but a Muslim civil rights group said it intends to press a discrimination complaint against the airline for its treatment of the passengers.

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CAIR Files DOT Complaint After Muslims Kicked Off AirTran Flight

Press Release | news.prnewswire.com | Jan 2, 2009

-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the Muslim passengers were removed from the flight and allegedly denied re- boarding and barred from other AirTran flights after another passenger overhead one of the Muslims make a comment about the safest place to sit on a plane.

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