Topic - Continental Airlines

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  Paroled American Berenson arrives in U.S.

  Paroled American Lori Berenson, who stirred international controversy when she was convicted of aiding Peruvian guerrillas, arrived in the United States on Tuesday morning for her first visit home since Peruvian authorities arrested her in 1995.

• Laura Ingraham: Jewelry stolen at NJ airport

  Radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham says $11,000 worth of jewelry was taken from her checked luggage and she believes the theft happened at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

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  Lowly shrub grows in stature as biofuel

  A plant that some have scorned as a predator might well turn out to be part of the answer to rising fuel bills for consumers.

• United apologizes for returning 9/11 flight numbers to schedule

  United Airlines apologized Wednesday for briefly restarting use of flight numbers of two planes that crashed after being hijacked by Islamist terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.

• Continental flight makes emergency landing at Dulles

  Continental Airlines said on Monday that a flight that took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport sucked a bird into one of its engines and had to make an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport.

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  Snow heads for D.C.; 6 to 10 inches predicted

  Heavy snow has been predicted for the nation's capital on Sunday from a storm that gave a rare white Christmas to parts of the South and caused airlines to cancel hundreds of flights on Saturday.

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  French court finds Continental, mechanic guilty in Concorde crash

  Continental Airlines Inc. and one of its mechanics were convicted in a French court of manslaughter Monday because debris from one of its planes caused the crash of an Air France Concorde jet that killed 113 people a decade ago.

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  A decade after a supersonic Concorde jet crashed in a fiery wreck outside Paris soon after takeoff, killing 113 people, a French court will rule Monday on who, if anyone, is to blame.

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  Southwest Airlines to buy AirTran for $1.4B

  Southwest agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.4 billion deal that will combine two of the country's largest low-fare airlines and give Southwest a bigger slice of the market in the Northeast and in Atlanta, the busiest hub in the nation.

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  Southwest Airlines to buy AirTran for $1.4B

  Southwest Airlines agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.4 billion deal that will combine two of the country's largest low-fare carriers and give Southwest a bigger slice of the market in the Northeast and in Atlanta, the busiest airport in the nation.

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  Congress ready to pass aviation safety measures

  The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said he is introducing a bill that would tighten measures for airlines after a deadly commuter plane crash in western New York in early 2009.

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  Families mark 10 years since Concorde crash

  Families whose loved ones died in the fiery crash of a supersonic Concorde jetliner 10 years ago joined together near Paris on Sunday, laying flowers at a monument to the dead and wandering the breezy field where the plane went down.

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  XUAN: An empty seat, a broken heart

  Have you ever waited at an airport for a loved one you have not seen in a long time? Surely you remember the giddy expectation, scanning arriving passengers for that familiar face. But what if your loved one never arrived?

• Reregulation of airlines being pondered

  Restoring financial regulation of the airline industry will be put before Congress if the Justice Department approves a proposed merger of United and Continental airlines, two key House members said Wednesday.

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  Turnaround artist

  DENVER - Long before dawn breaks, Greg Brenneman is on the run, a habit that can be a bit disconcerting for his temporary houseguest.

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