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'I feel very bad. I'm beyond words about the inconvenience this has caused.' THE REV. RAYMOND LEE CHO-MIN, chairman of Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, on the budget carrier's collapse amid nearly $130 million in debts

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

The Senate On April 10, the Senate passed the Foreclosure Prevention Act, which would give $6 billion in tax breaks to home builders--and to airlines and other struggling businesses. The bill would also increase the maximum mortgage limit that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) can insure, to $550,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

Then he stops himself, having noticed the looks from the guys gathered around the table. They aren't rock stars; they're airline executives who work in outposts of the Virgin empire--San Francisco, Geneva and Brisbane--and they've heard this story before. Rather than bore them, Branson spends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Branson's Flight Plan | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

The trouble with American's MD-80s cropped up during a phase one inspection, Duquette says, and, when rechecked during phase two, was found to persist on 15 airplanes. Fasteners designed to secure wires to keep them from chafing were installed too far apart, and in some cases backwards. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Airline Chaos Ahead? | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

But why ground the entire fleet, instead of letting the airline do it over several weeks, as it requested and as many carriers had been allowed to do with previous enforcement actions? "We would not have approved that," Duquette says. "Given what we found at Southwest Airlines, we feel we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Airline Chaos Ahead? | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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