Southwest has planned for more than a year to sell travel to Canada on board flights operated by Canadas WestJet.
But Canadian media reports indicate that WestJet is talking about a similar deal with Delta, which would transfer a few takeoff and landing slots at New Yorks LaGuardia Airport to the Canadian carrier.
Southwests executive vice president of planning, Bob Jordan, said Thursday that a WestJet-Delta deal could conflict with the Southwest-WestJet partnership. Jordan also said WestJet has made unacceptable demands of Southwest, which he didnt describe.
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Sharp Corp. demonstrated liquid crystal screens Friday for mobile devices that showed 3-D animation, touch-panel screens that switched from one 3-D photo to another and a display connected to a 3-D video camera.
Movies and TVs in 3-D are no longer surprising. Sony Corp. and Pansonic Corp. of Japan, as well as South Koreas Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics, already sell or are planning 3-D TVs.
The drawback until now has been the need for special glasses, which show different images to the right eye and the left eye. Sharps 3-D technology doesnt require them because the displays are designed to - - - - >

Its a move welcomed by an industry that has suffered several years of losses, but some experts caution farmers shouldnt expect to see a surge in exports. China still produces most of the pork it consumes and wont accept pork containing ractopamin, an additive used in the U.S. that causes hogs to turn feed to muscle instead of fat.
Still, lifting of the ban is good news for U.S. pork farmers, who were hit with a triple whammy of high feed costs, a drop in demand at home with the recession and import bans by more than two dozen countries worried - - - - >

A couple retiring this year will need a quarter of a million dollars, on average, to cover medical expenses in retirement, according to a study to be released Thursday by Fidelity Investments.
The estimate is up 4.2 percent from Fidelitys projection last year. The Boston-based financial services company has updated its estimate annually since 2002 as part of its business helping employers design workplace benefits programs.
The study is based on projections for a couple of 65-year-olds retiring this year with Medicare coverage. The estimate factors in the federal programs premiums, co-payments and deductibles, as well as out-of-pocket prescription costs. The study - - - - >

The document, called an “annual review,” provides a rare window into the publicity-shy funds operations and investment strategy. A revamped Web site launching Monday aims to further humanize ADIA by including video soundbites from key players and photos offering a glimpse inside the funds iconic glass tower, the tallest in the Emirati capital.
The increased openness could help address Western policy makers concerns about the Abu Dhabi funds motives at a time when the neighboring emirate Dubai is under fire for a perceived lack of financial transparency amid the handling of its debt crisis.
ADIA has repeatedly said its investments, including a - - - - >

The International Air Transport Association said carriers began bouncing back late last year, and have continued to see stronger demand after posting record losses during the global economic crisis. The group also lowered its 2009 loss estimate to $9.4 billion from $11 billion because of the year-end rally.
“We are starting to see some blue skies ahead of us,” said IATA chief executive Giovanni Bisignani.
The group, which represents 240 airline companies worldwide, had predicted in December that 2010 losses would total $5.6 billion because of the “extraordinarily low” yields airlines are generating - the average price someone pays to fly one - - - - >

Northern Rock said it posted a profit of 466.7 million pounds ($696 million) in the second half, following a loss of 724.2 million in the first half of 2009.
For the full year, Northern Rock reported a pretax loss of 257.5 million pounds ($384 million), down from a loss of 1.355 billion pounds in the previous year.
Loan loss impairments rose to 1.05 billion pounds from 894 million pounds in 2008.
“Loan loss impairment charges are expected to remain high during 2010, relative to historic norms, but below the level recorded in 2009,” the company said.
The results were the last for the old - - - - >

The investments from Bruce Berkowitzs Fairholme Capital Management LLC and William Ackmans Pershing Square Capital Management LP would allow unsecured creditors to be paid in full with cash, General Growth said in a statement last night. Their funds are in addition to $2.63 billion pledged by Brookfield.
The cash payment matches a provision of a competing bid by Simon Property Group Inc., which has offered to buy its biggest competitor for more than $10 billion and pay all unsecured creditors. Chicago-based General Growth rejected that bid and - - - - >

For their companies, the fields that they won the rights to develop in two biddings rounds last year are their first foray into Iraqs oil sector in over three decades.
For Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the executives and their investments are a vital part of his bid to win a second term in March 7 elections. Al-Maliki has billed himself to voters as the leader that can ensure the development of Iraqs dilapidated oil sector and bring in billions of dollars to rebuild the countrys struggling economy.
Al-Malikis promises could take years to fulfill and many experts see his predictions for - - - - >

Barclays Capital, the investment-banking unit of Barclays Plc, increased its pay and bonuses per employee by about 93 percent in 2009, according to company filings. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, the U.K.s biggest government-owned bank, raised total compensation per employee by about 73 percent last year. Of the U.K.s three largest banks, HSBC Holdings Plc was the only one where pay declined slightly in its investment bank.
“The banks are just paying lip-service to what they think politicians and the public want to hear while carrying - - - - >