NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Richard Anderson (L), CEO of Delta, and Doug Steenland, President and CEO of Northwest Airlines, answer questions during a press conference April 15, 2008 in New York City. Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines have announced a merger that will create the world's largest airline carrier if approved, saying that the merger will improve access for travelers and help deal with skyrocketing fuel costs. Getty Images logo Getty Images 14 months ago

NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Richard Anderson (L), CEO of Delta, and Doug Steenland, President and CEO of Northwest Airlines, answer questions during a press conference April 15, 2008 in New York City. Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines have announced a merger that will create the world's largest airline carrier if approved, saying that the merger will improve access for travelers and help deal with skyrocketing fuel costs.

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  1. In this picture supplied by Delta Air Lines, a Delta Air Lines plane takes off on its inaugural Sydney-to-Los Angles flight from Sydney International Airport Friday June 3, 2009.
  2. In this picture supplied by Delta Air Lines, a Delta Air Lines plane with an Australian and U.S. flag hanging out of the pilot's window before it takes off on its inaugural Sydney-to-Los Angles flight from Sydney International Airport Friday June 3, 2009.
  3. This James Morgan Delta Air Lines handout photo taken on July 3, 2009 shows Delta Flight 16, a Boeing 777-200LR, taking off from Sydney International Airport for the airline's first nonstop Sydney-to-Los-Angeles flight. The nonstop service will provide Australians with unparalleled connections from Los Angeles to more than 300 key destinations in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  4. This James Morgan Delta Air Lines handout photo taken on July 3, 2009 shows Delta Flight 16, a Boeing 777-200LR, taking off from Sydney International Airport for the airline's first nonstop Sydney-to-Los-Angeles flight. The nonstop service will provide Australians with unparalleled connections from Los Angeles to more than 300 key destinations in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  5. This James Morgan Delta Air Lines handout photo taken on July 3, 2009 shows Delta Flight 16, a Boeing 777-200LR, taking off from Sydney International Airport for the airline's first nonstop Sydney-to-Los-Angeles flight. The nonstop service will provide Australians with unparalleled connections from Los Angeles to more than 300 key destinations in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  6. This James Morgan Delta Air Lines handout photo taken on July 3, 2009 shows Delta Flight 16, a Boeing 777-200LR, taking off from Sydney International Airport for the airline's first nonstop Sydney-to-Los-Angeles flight. The nonstop service will provide Australians with unparalleled connections from Los Angeles to more than 300 key destinations in the US as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  7. This James Morgan Delta Air Lines handout photo taken on July 3, 2009 shows Captain Col Flenigan (C) waving as Delta Flight 16, a Boeing 777-200LR, prepares to takeoff from Sydney International Airport for the airline's first nonstop Sydney-to-Los-Angeles flight. The nonstop service will provide Australians with unparalleled connections from Los Angeles to more than 300 key destinations in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  8. This James Morgan Delta Air Lines handout photo taken on July 3, 2009 shows Delta Flight 16, a Boeing 777-200LR, preparing to takeoff from Sydney International Airport for the airline's first nonstop Sydney-to-Los-Angeles flight. The nonstop service will provide Australians with unparalleled connections from Los Angeles to more than 300 key destinations in the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
  9. A Northwest Airlines jet carrying members of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team is welcomed with a spray of water from the Los Angeles International airport fire department Monday, June 15, 2009, in Los Angeles.
  10. An ambulance parks next to a Northwest Airlines flight that arrived at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Thursday afternoon, April 30, 2009. The airport authorities said a Japanese woman who arrived in the flight from Los Angeles was being quarantined after showing symptoms of flu. ** JAPAN OUT.
  11. A suspected swine flu patient (L) is escorted by a quarantine officer to an ambulance for testing of the swine flu at a hospital at the Narita International Airport on April 30, 2009. A Japanese woman, who arrived at Narita airport on a Northwest Airlines flight, was the first arrival to be tested and then isolated under strict new rules announced this week after the Mexico outbreak.
  12. A Japanese woman, covered with a blanket, who showed symptoms of flu on a Northwest Airlines flight that arrived at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Thursday afternoon, April 30, 2009, is escorted to a waiting ambulance by quarantine officers. The woman, who would be Japan's first confirmed case of swine flu if confirmed, is currently being tested, and the results will be available early Friday morning, according to a health official at the airport.
  13. A suspected swine flu patient is escorted by a quarantine officer to an ambulance for testing of the swine flu at a hospital at the Narita International Airport on April 30, 2009. A Japanese woman, who arrived at Narita airport on a Northwest Airlines flight, was the first arrival to be tested and then isolated under strict new rules announced this week after the Mexico outbreak.

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