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Delta sticks to offer to JAL for alliance

Dec. 2, 2009
Delta Airlines President Ed Bastian says the billion-dollar offer to get Japan Airlines to join its alliance is still on. Delta and its partners have been trying to lure money-losing Japan Airlines, this nation's top carrier, to drop its alliance with rival...
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