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A flight board shows United Airlines flight UA88 (top) believed to be carrying blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, is seen at Beijing International Airport on May 19, 2012. Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left China for the United States with his family on May 19, the US State...

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The United Airlines check in area at Beijing International Airport on May 19, 2012. Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng received a passport on May 19 before making preparations to board a flight headed for New York, a close friend told.

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A United Airlines jet taking off from Newark Liberty International Airport flies across the moon seen from Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, N.J. , Thursday, April 5, 2012.

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A United Express flight from Atlanta to Newark made an emergency landing because of problems with its nose landing gear, in Newark, New Jersey, as pictured in this video grab provided to Reuters on February 27, 2012. New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport was briefly closed...

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A United Airlines Airbus A319 airplane waits on a taxiway to takeoff alongside private jets at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, February 16, 2012. When United and Continental complete their merger, the combined airline will operate over 5,600 flights to 376 airports on six...

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United Airlines ramp service employee Robel Lopez holds up an Oscar statuette after a flight from Chicago arrived with a shipment of 42 Oscar statuettes, at Los Angeles International Airport February 9, 2012. The 84th annual Academy Awards will be presented in Hollywood, California on...

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United Airlines Captain Mel Mason, Jr. holds an Oscar statuette out the cockpit window as the flight carrying 42 Academy Awards Oscar statuettes lands at Los Angeles International Airport from Chicago where they are made, in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2012.

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United Airlines ramp service employee Robel Lopez poses with an Oscar statue as he unloads boxes of the statues after their flight from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2012.

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United Airlines ramp service employee Julio Cesar Mora (3rd L) and coworkers pose with an Oscar statue after the flight carrying the Academy Awards arrived at Los Angeles International Airport from Chicago, Illinois in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2012.

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United Airlines Captain Mel Mason, Jr. holds an Oscar statue out the cockpit window as the flight carrying the Academy Awards arrives from Chicago, Illinois at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2012.

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United Airlines ramp service employee Robel Lopez (R) hands down an Oscar statue after posing with it as he unloads boxes containing the Academy Awards after they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2012.

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United Airlines ramp service employee Rin Muth unloads a box of Oscars statues after they were flown in from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California February 9, 2012.

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United Airlines baggage handlers posing with a Oscar statue at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The awards will be distributed at the 84th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

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United Airlines pilot Mel Mason Jr. poses with an Oscar statue in the cockpit of "Oscar One" after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport from Chicago in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The awards will be distributed at the 84th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 26 at the Kodak...

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United Airlines planes take off and land at San Francisco airport, California in this January 21, 2012, file photo. United Continental Holdings, parent of United Airlines, and JetBlue Airways on January 26, 2012 posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings and increased revenue,...

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United Airlines planes take off and land at San Francisco airport, California January 21, 2012.

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A United Airlines passenger plane is being de-iced at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport January 18, 2012. Some flights were cancelled and many delayed because of the snow and cold temperatures. Seattle residents bracing for an epic storm on Wednesday may now only see up to 6...

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A United Airlines flight information screen displays flight information, including many canceled and delayed flights, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2012. The season's first major snowstorm has forced airlines to cancel more than 500 flights at O'Hare...

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2011, file photo, travelers check their luggage at an United Airlines baggage claim area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Airlines are slowly, steadily recovering from their meltdown five years ago, when, under the strain of near-record consumer travel...

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A United Airlines jet prepares to land September 10, 2011 at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia.

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United Airlines employee Maria Triolo, second from left, comforts fellow worker Gail Moona-Nevulis during a ceremony at the 9/11 memorial at Logan International Airport in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. The memorial is dedicated to the flight crews and passengers aboard United Airlines...

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Airline pilots from United and American Airlines stand vigil at a memorial to Massachusetts victims of 9/11 during ceremonies on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, in Boston. American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 took off from...

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Retired and active United Airlines flight attendants form a prayer circle at a gate along the Wall of Names at phase 1 of the Flight 93 National Memorial near the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Saturday Sept. 10, 2011.

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Retired and active United Airlines flight attendants join hands at the Wall of Names at phase 1 of the Flight 93 National Memorial near the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.

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A United Express plane sits in the grass after it slid off the runway at the Ottawa International Airport on Sunday Sept. 4, 2011 in Ottawa, Canada. Emergency and airport officials said all the passengers traveling from Chicago got off the plane safely and were taken into the terminal...