On Friday Chinese carrier SpringAirlines cancelled a promotion offering free tickets from Shanghai to Saga prefecture in Japan following outcry from netizens.
He may be a fan of low-budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which made headlines this spring when it announced that it was installing "pre-reclined" seats on some of its planes as a space- and cost-saving measure.
Executives of such blue chips as United Airlines and Salomon Smith Barney were at the White House this spring toasting President Clinton's one-year-old Welfare to Work Partnership and saying their welfare hires had better retention rates than workers found from other sources.
Strikes planned for the spring and summer by pilots at Delta Air Lines and flight attendants at American Airlines and United Airlines could still bring chaos for travellers.