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 | | The resurrected airline retained its predecessor's International Air Transport Assn. code ("SN"), which was added to the company's name, but it has devised a much more pragmatic strategy. |
 | | After a good start during the second quarter of 2002, newly formed SNBA concluded multiyear lease deals with Birdy Airlines and additional contractors covering three 264-seat Airbus A330-300 long-haul twinjets and three 125-seat A319s needed to operate up to 38 weekly flights to Africa. |
 | | After the SAirGroup's dramatic failure, the bankruptcies of Swissair and Sabena, and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the U.S. that worsened the airline industry doldrums, such state funding was a prerequisite to relaunching a national airline. |
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