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British Airways' chief executive, Rod Eddington, has said that the combination of SARS, the war in Iraq and a weak economic outlook mean that the global airline industry is facing its toughest crisis in living memory.
ECONOMIST: Painful side-effects
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He became boss of Boeing's commercial-aircraft division, which he ran for eight years and steered through the violent shocks inflicted on the industry by the slumps in air travel after the terrorist attacks on America in September 2001, the SARS scare and the Iraq war.
ECONOMIST: Ford
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The fresh warnings are another blow to the beleaguered tourism industries in Southeast Asia which have already been hit by the impact of the SARS virus, Iraq war and October 12 Bali bombings.
CNN: SE Asia terror alerts widen