JAPAN AIRLINES AND JAS PLAN MERGER.
A Japan Air System (JAS) plane leaves a boarding bridge at Tokyo's Haneda
Airport November 11, 2001. Japan's largest carrier, Japan Airlines Co Ltd,
and third-largest Japan Air System Co Ltd are planning a merger that would
create the world's sixth-largest airline, Japanese economic newspaper Nihon
Keizai Shimbun said on Sunday. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama
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