Japan Airlines (JAL) decided Wednesday to dump its partnership with American Airlines and its Oneworld alliance in favor of Delta and the SkyTeam group of carriers.

日本航空公司（JAL)星期三决定放弃与美国航空公司的合作转而投向达美航空以及天空联盟旗下的公司。

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These are: International Airlines Group (BA and Iberia) plus American Airlines; United, including Continental, and Lufthansa and Air Canada; and Air France-KLM with Delta, incorporating Northwest.

它们是：国际航空集团（BA和伊比利亚）加上美国航空；联合航空，它包括大陆航空、德国汉莎和加拿大航空；法航-荷航与合并了西北航空的达美航空。

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Some of the stocks he initiated a buy rating on include Alaska Air Group, American Airlines parent AMR, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines parent UAL, because those stocks are highly leveraged to an economic recovery, will benefit from balance-sheet deleveraging, focused on growing margins rather than gaining market share and attractively valued.

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Airlines were up to, with Southwest gaining 5.9%, AMR Group (which owns American Airlines) up 4.8%, Jet Blue gaining 4.2%, and US Airways up 9.5%.

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In the transportation sector many are speculating that American Airlines ( AAMRQ) and US Airways Group ( LCC) will merge, maybe as early as next week.

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