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Japan Airlines is to cut 6,800 jobs, slash its network of overseas routes and withdraw from some airports as it seeks to attract the funding it needs to repair its balance sheet. Haruka Nishimatsu, JAL’s president, also said that the company aims to agree on a capital injection from a foreign rival by mid-October
Solemn memorial services in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Friday will mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Eight years ago, al Qaeda terrorists hijacked airplanes to crash them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — twin symbols of America’s financial and military might
A Merpati Nusantara Airlines plane with 15 passengers and crew on board disappeared shortly after takeoff in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, an airline official said.
Complete this sentence: In the event of a loss of cabin pressure … If you guessed, “oxygen masks will drop from above,” you are not alone. Because the federally mandated preflight safety announcement is about as well known as the pledge of allegiance to many travelers, they immediately tune it out
The airline said its pre-tax profits for the year ended February soared from £34.8 ($55 million) in 2007/2008 to £68.4 ($108 million).
Virgin Atlantic reported a sharp rise in profits Tuesday, bucking the trend seen by other airlines. The airline said its pre-tax profits for the year ended February soared from £34.8 ($55 million) in 2007/2008 to £68.4 ($108 million).
We tend to think of airplane crashes as fatal events. So when survivors emerge from the carcass of a crumpled jumbo jet, as they did outside Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Wednesday or on the Hudson River in mid-January, the spectacle is often described as “miraculous.” But survival in an airplane crash is no miracle.