Its white knight, Etihad Airways of the United Arab Emirates, seems to have found a new airline to court in the form of Kingfisher rival Jet Airways.

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For example, the points earned on a Merrill Lynch card can be redeemed in the form of private flights on a G4 jet.

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Airlines such as American, Delta, Jet Blue and United were helping provide assistance to the country in the form of free miles for its program members and seats for aid organizations.

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To provide some form of throttle to allow acceleration and deceleration, the vehicle's designers added the EJ200 jet engine.

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This is no comfort as the forecasts continue to be grim, but it is a measure of the complexity of the physics involved - how air moves in waves, why certain patterns form - that more than 60 years later scientists are still wrestling with the question of how the jet stream operates and what shapes it.

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