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When their airline filed for bankruptcy in August, a few dedicated stewardesses did what no highly-paid executive would do: stripped down to raise some dough. Ten stewardesses with Mexicana Airlines debuted their sexy, aviation-themed calendar on Thursday, which feature the flight attendants in bikinis or scantily-altered versions of their former uniform. The women even shelled out nearly $8,000 of their own money to help cover the production costs. "The goal was to try to help ourselves because we lost everything overnight," said Maribel Zavala, who posed for the calendar. The calendar flew off the shelves, selling out 1,000 copies at...

Debt-ridden airline Mexicana de Aviacion is halting all operations, Mexico's transportation secretary said Friday. Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas told reporters in Mexico City the struggling carrier will cease all flights and other activity as of midnight Friday night. Mexico's largest airline filed for bankruptcy protection in Mexico and the United States on Aug. 2 while it sought to reorganize itself. Three days later it announced that it had stopped selling tickets and then suspended some flights. In court filings, the company said it had been badly hit by the swine flu outbreak in 2009 that scared away travellers for months...

Los Angeles, California - An elevator mechanic employed by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) was formally indicted today for smuggling foreign nationals into the United States by bypassing established security at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Roberto Amaya Canchola, 53, a United States citizen and Los Angeles resident, is charged in a six-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury here this afternoon with bringing illegal aliens into the United States for financial gain and with bringing illegal aliens into the country without presenting them to an immigration officer. If convicted on all six counts, Canchola faces a maximum...