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- ↑ Rich Piellisch. "Avolar Will Offer Airbus Fractionals; Sees Closer Ties with United Airlines", Aviation Week.
- ↑ Vaughn Cordle. "United's Avolar Idea Was a Day Late and a Dollar Short" Archived February 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , Airlineforecasts.com, Published: March 11, 2002. (The web article states that this piece originally appeared in Aviation Oracle in February 2002.)
- ↑ "UAL Corporation Reports First-Quarter Results" Archived November 28, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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