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Dec 17, 2009 | 5:50 am

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Originally Posted by EXLEFTSEAT

Education time : before the treaty now being offered to sign there were only three airlines ( and their successors, funny all of them are gone ) PAN AM-passed on to UA, DL passed on from NW ( means NW held out the longest ( oh, I am crying again, and FedEx who bought it from Flying Tigers ( wow, what an outfit this was ) who could service NRT And to do that from any U.S. airport to any Asian airport they choose. But the new agreement puts all these agreements in limbo. No more preferential airlines. Open skies means no preference.

Thanks for the history. As I child I owned some stock in Tiger International that my father received as an investment club distribution. Seemed pretty exciting at the time. He must have sold it before the merger with FedEx because I didn't ever get FedEx stock (or FedEx cashed out the Tiger shareholders instead of giving them shares).

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