TOKYO, Nov. 19 (AFP) – Japan Airlines was offered a billion-dollar financial lifeline Wednesday from Delta Air Lines and its SkyTeam alliance partners, as Tokyo refused to rule out allowing the carrier going bankrupt.

CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) and its SkyTeam alliance partners said that they would provide a $1.02 billion funding package to lure stricken Japan Airlines Corp. (9205.TO) from the rival Oneworld alliance.

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines Inc says the SkyTeam alliance of global carriers would be willing to invest more than its proposed $1.02 billion in Japan Airlines (9205.T), the Wall Street Journal reported.

Delta Air Lines and its SkyTeam alliance partners offered as much as $1 billion in incentives to lure Japan Airlines away from the Oneworld group led by American Airlines.

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and its SkyTeam alliance partners offered as much as $1 billion in incentives to lure Japan Airlines Corp.

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Air France-KLM Group is prepared to invest in Japan Airlines Corp. as it works with Delta Air Lines Inc. and partners to woo the Asian carrier to join SkyTeam and abandon an alliance led by AMR Corp.’s American Airlines.

A federal air marshal who says he was seriously injured when a flight attendant deliberately smashed a beverage cart into him is suing Delta Air Lines and the crew member, a "Jane Doe" co-defendant in the suit, who allegedly preceded the attack with less forceful rammings and warnings that he and a fellow air marshal should "stay out of my way." U.S. Air Marshal Harold Lamberson has since been ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of Delta Air Lines Inc says the SkyTeam alliance of global carriers would be willing to invest more than its proposed $1.02 billion in Japan Airlines <9205.T>, the Wall Street Journal reported.

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- A $1.02 billion offer of help by Delta Air lines (DAL) and its SkyTeam partners for ailing Japan Airlines Corp (JALSY, 9205.TO) is only a preliminary proposal and any outcome will depend on discussions with JAL and the Japanese government that still to take place, the chief executive of Air France- KLM (AFLYY, AF.FR) said Wednesday.

NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Delta Air Lines Inc says the SkyTeam alliance of global carriers would be willing to invest more than its proposed $1.02 billion in Japan Airlines, the Wall Street Journal reported. The final proposed investment into JAL by the nine-airline SkyTeam alliance could be "greater than what we've stated" thus far, Richard Anderson said in an ...