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...Chief among them: the airline’s long-standing credit card deal with American Express....
...Travel is a consistent theme: Royal Caribbean, Delta, American Airlines, and two casinos (MGM and Las Vegas Sands) are all in the top 10. Business travel is back....
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...Expedia’s rival Booking.com had higher profits and half the fixed cost base....
...American Airlines, for example, sold to Goldman Sachs notes secured against the “aa.com” URL and “American Airlines” trademark....
...However, Rossman said a sharp decline in business travel would continue to weigh on other sectors of the travel industry, such as hotels and airlines....
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...In his downbeat online shareholder meeting last week, he told investors that he had spent much of March and April selling his huge stakes in the US’s four biggest airlines (United, American, Delta and Southwest...
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, the two US carriers that fly the jet, also continued to defend it as safe, as did pilots’ unions for both companies....
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...Sixteen years after AirAsia brought the budget airline model to the region, flag carriers such as Singapore Airlines are finally beginning to adopt some of its practices, as their European and American counterparts...
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