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Getting Harder to Get to China

Northwest Airlines recently requested the FAA to delay 2 of its direct routes to China that were supposed to begin in early 2009, adding its name to a long list that already includes a number of its competitors, all due to the economic crisis.Northwest's... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng

from Modern Lei Feng on Mon, Jan 12 2009

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