Finnair also collaborates with design label Global Hope, which also creates bags from their old uniforms.

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Finnair also donates clothing and furniture to workshops for special needs individuals.

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Today, it has 12 airlines including Finnair, Royal Jordanian and Japan Airlines.

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Finnair has a more do-gooder approach.

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We also saw greener transportation take to the skies as Finnair launched the world's longest biofueled commercial flight, Scaled Composites launched its bipod flying car, and the US Air Force announced plans to replace 50 percent of its domestic fuels with biofuels by 2016.

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