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You worked closely with American Airlines on Up in the Air. Did they give you any Ryan Bingham--esque perks?
The Vietnamese government's investment arm, the State Capital Investment Corporation, owns 70% of Jetstar Pacific and Qantas owns 27%, until 2007 the airline was fully owned by the Vietnamese government. In other words, Nam, Freeman and Marsilli lost the state a lot of money after investing in fuel futures...
Many analysts worry that the detention of Freeman and Marsilli signals a reversal of the Vietnamese government's widely lauded market reforms. With spiraling inflation and the global financial crisis taking a bite out of the country's crucial export sector, some say government hardliners have responded by rolling back...
Clearly, some rivals don't. Southwest Airlines has mocked the majors in a series of advertisements that point out its own free checked-baggage service. JetBlue did likewise in a recent ad, offering a faux travel product to non-JetBlue flyers, the Extrago Sherpa Shirt, which "can hold an entire...
The al-Qaeda Connection But intelligence officials say al-Awlaki was leading a double life. In 2000 he met with Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the five men who on Sept. 11, 2001, would hijack American Airlines Flight 77 and fly it into the Pentagon. These...