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Potential bidders for a 33 percent stake in Milan airport operator SEA have lost interest in the deal, and no binding offers have been made, a treasurer for one of its shareholders said.

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United Airlines today announced
new daily roundtrip service between its Denver hub and Toronto -- dubbed the
"city of imagination" -- provided by explus(SM), the United Express(R)
regional jet service offering first-class seating. Service begins June 12,
2006.

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A Midwest Airlines passenger aircraft landed safely at Boston's Logan Airport on Tuesday after circling the airport for hours to dump fuel following a problem with its landing gear discovered shortly after takeoff.

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Two passengers on a Southwest Airlines plane that skidded off a runway earlier this month, killing one person, have sued the airline, Boeing and the city of Chicago, their lawyer said.

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Staff at troubled Cyprus Airways have been given a 48 hour deadline to accept a restructuring involving hundreds of lay-offs, which management says are essential for the airline to stay in business.

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Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 will soon have a new home in New York – Brooklyn’s new passenger ship terminal, featuring views of Manhattan’s iconic skyline, the Statue of Liberty and famed Brooklyn Bridge.

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A federal jury in Seattle on Wednesday cleared Boeing in a lawsuit brought by 4,000 black salaried employees, who claimed they were passed over for promotions because of racial discrimination.

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UAL, parent of United Airlines, on Wednesday posted a net loss of USD$187 million for November, including USD$159 million of largely non cash reorganization expenses driven by aircraft-related transactions.

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Brazilian airline TAM Linhas Aereas said on Wednesday it placed a firm order for 10 Airbus A350-900 passenger jets, becoming the first carrier in Latin America to buy the new plane.

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I have come to think that America’s favorite pastime is complaining about airline service — especially service on the network carriers.

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While planes are managing to stay on the runaway this week, problems of a less frightening and more mundane sort are starting to pile up at Chicago's airports as the holiday travel season begins.

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UAL Corporation
(OTC Bulletin Board: UALAQ), the holding company whose primary subsidiary is
United Airlines, today filed its November Monthly Operating Report with the
United States Bankruptcy Court. The company reported operating earnings of $9
million for November 2005 (filing entities only), an improvement of $197
million over the same period last year, despite higher fuel prices resulting
in $124 million increase in fuel costs year over year for mainline and United
Express operations.

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Celebrity Cruises has made a
giant leap toward transforming a century into a millennium in just five weeks.
The line has signed with Fincantieri in Palermo, Italy, to handle the
significant revitalization of its 77,713-ton Century cruise ship in 2006.
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For Delta Air Lines' customers who are stumped for that last-minute holiday present, the airline has the perfect solution: give the gift of travel. Forget the ties, bathrobes and bedroom slippers. Beginning today, Delta is offering special low sale airfares for a limited time to scores of great destinations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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BAA reports an increase in Christmas travel as a total of 3 million people are set to use their seven airports during the Christmas week, with luggage forwarding services such as First Luggage truly beginning to take off. The average family going abroad over Christmas lugs the equivalent of one and a half fully grown male reindeer on holiday, surely baggage they would rather avoid carrying to the airport, queuing to check in and waiting anxiously for at the carousel.

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