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Up close and personal with military aircraft from around the world at the Air Force's largest and most important combat training exercise.

British Airways and Hilton Hotels are among a number of firms set to offer apprenticeships, as National Apprenticeship Week gets underway The biggest drive to encourage firms to take on apprentices is due to begin, with more than 500 events across the UK and pledges of hundreds of new training places.

An airport worker inspects the under-carriage of Air China planes while they are parked at the terminal building of Beijing's International Airport February 6, 2012.

Qantas Airways Ltd. would have to cut jobs, cancel routes and even sell off its budget division Jetstar if laws affecting the airline are changed, said Alan Joyce, chief executive officer of Australia's largest carrier.

Southwest Airlines , the nation's biggest carrier of domestic passengers, doesn't provide its customers with high-tech entertainment systems or in-flight movies, like many of its competitors.

International Consolidated Airlines Group SA's British Airways unit and Ryanair Holdings Plc were among airlines cutting hundreds of flights from London after snow blanketed the capital.

According to sources familiar with the situation of the struggling American Airlines told an NBC affiliate that the company will be cutting up to 15,000 jobs, which is approximately 10% of its workforce, in efforts to cut costs.

An American Airlines ground crew works on an aircraft before departure at Dallas-Fort Worth International airport on Wednesday.

Rob Fyfe, the charismatic chief executive who has navigated Air New Zealand brilliantly through a world-wide recession and cut-throat competition in the aviation industry, will be leaving the company at the end of the year.

Malev, the government-owned national airline of Hungary, ended operations Friday morning, the culmination of weeks teetering on the edge of insolvency.