1.   Analysts expect the market for large aircraft to grow in coming years as airlines in China and elsewhere in Asia start buying more aircraft.

2.   Braniff incurred huge expenses buying aircraft and starting dozens of routes in the United States, Europe and Asia.

3.   According to the report, the government-owned airline had initially decided to buy aircraft from Fokker N.V. of the Netherlands.

4.   Aeroflot is buying better aircraft and using them more efficiently.

5.   After five years of losing billions of dollars, airlines are returning to profitability and eventually will begin buying new aircraft again, the Airbus forecast said.

6.   He said the aircraft will be bought by a financing company which, in turn, will lease the planes to the airlines.

7.   He said its capabilities would allow the British to buy fewer aircraft.

8.   In the past, for example, he has contacted foreign leaders considering whether to buy military aircraft from Texas companies.

9.   Instead, he said, Colombia will seek American authorization to buy such aircraft with its own funds.

10.   Last month, he indicated in an interview with the Financial Times of London that his airline was leaning toward buying new aircraft from Airbus Industrie.