Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I ace, bravely founded Eastern Airlines in the late 1930s.
China Eastern Airlines rose 1.7%, Air China gained 1.9%, and Cathay Pacific Airways added 3.5%.
Qantas said China Eastern Airlines is China's second largest airline in terms of passengers carried.
A. students are being funded by state firms like China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry and China Eastern Airlines.
In Shanghai, China Eastern Airlines fell 3.3%, Air China lost 3.2% and China Southern Airlines dropped 4.5%.
Australia's Qantas Group and China Eastern Airlines have agreed to launch a new budget carrier for the Chinese market.
China Eastern Airlines, the Shanghai-based carrier, just announced the order of 60 A320s from Airbus with delivery from 2014 to 2017.
Based in Shanghai, China Eastern Airlines (CEA, 36) is China's third-largest airline.
In 1972, 99 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011 crashed into the Everglades near Miami International Airport in Florida.
Chinese Eastern Airlines canceled a mammoth order for 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners this week in favor of the much smaller 737 aircraft, the company said.
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Hong Kong health officials said a patient who is being treated there arrived from Mexico on a China Eastern Airlines flight that stopped in Shanghai.
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It has partnerships with Air Berlin, Air Seychelles and Virgin Australia, but also signed codeshare deals this quarter with Aer Lingus and China Eastern Airlines.
In 1989, Trump bought the Eastern Airlines shuttle service from Eastern as it was trying to stave off its own collapse by selling off its better assets.
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On March 28th, China Eastern Airlines was due to fly into Delhi from Beijing, inaugurating the first ever direct air link between the world's two largest countries.
Hinson said FAA personnel determined that because many of the pilots hired by ValuJet were former Eastern Airlines pilots with considerable experience, some new hires appeared relatively inexperienced.
But China is likely to be cautious in granting Cathay additional flights given opposition from home carriers including Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines as the fragmented Chinese airline industry consolidates.
Kaffee, who is selling real estate after retiring from Eastern Airlines, made a quick trip back from a Florida vacation to pick up his car, which was delivered at 7 a.m.
The China Daily reported that China Eastern Airlines said it got a sizable discount on the 737s because it was such a large order, and were paying less than the list price.
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Mr Mintzberg points out that when Harvard Business School boasted of its alumni CEOs, the list included Frank Lorenzo, remembered for presiding over Eastern Airlines' bankruptcy, and Doug Ivester, unceremoniously booted from Coca-Cola.
"We see tremendous potential for the Qantas Group in Asia and we are looking forward to working more closely with China Eastern Airlines to deliver on it, " Alan Joyce, Qantas' chief executive officer said.
On Saturday International Consolidated Airlines Groupthe eastern city of Nanjing banned live poultry trade and closed markets, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The expulsion of three passengers of Middle Eastern descent from a Northwest Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City prompted Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to threaten to sue.
In 1994, 53 people were killed when a Turkish Airlines aircraft crashed in a snowstorm while trying to land in eastern Turkey.
The CAAC has urged the 10 airlines under its control to merge into three carrier groups under China Southern, China Eastern and unlisted Air China in a bid to boost competitiveness.
On the merger front, AirTran Holdings, the parent of AirTran Airlines, which serves long- and short-haul markets, primarily in the eastern U.S., announced in December a hostile takeover for another low-cost carrier, Midwest Air Group.
On the merger front, AirTran Holdings (nyse: AAI - news - people ), the parent of AirTran Airlines, which serves long- and short-haul markets, primarily in the eastern U.S., announced in December a hostile takeover for another low-cost carrier, Midwest Air Group (amex: MEH - news - people ).
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