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Bus travel grows as fuel soars, airfares leap

By iht.com

NEW YORK: It's a tale of two cities: Nikita Bernstein, 29, a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker with a business in Boston, was in need of a cheap way to travel between his two homes.

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Dubai's New Low-Cost Airline Orders 50 Airplanes At Cost Of $3.74 Billion

Boeing, FlyDubai announce Next-Generation 737 order

By eTN

Boeing and Dubai's recently-launched low-cost airline FlyDubai today announced an order for 50 Next-Generation 737-800s at the Farnborough Air Show.

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Airline Memo Defends Pilot's Decision

American plane flies trans-Atlantic trip with missing panel

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An American Airlines plane flew from Dallas, Texas, to Paris, France, even though a "large panel" fell off the underside as the flight took off, the airline said in a memo to pilots.

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Australia

Call to ban airline booze service

(eTN) - Alcohol should be banned from flights if airlines cannot control drunken and aggressive passengers, anti-drug campaigners say.

Incidents involving drunk and drug-affected airline passengers were behind almost a third of the 110 cases of disruptive behaviour reported to federal aviation authorities over the past two years.

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