91.   Regional airline Caribbean Star announced new nonstop daily flights between St. Kitts and St. Maarten beginning in May, a company official said.

92.   Regional airlines have reported full bookings for flights from Indonesia to Singapore in May and June, it said.

93.   Regional airlines could become even more important to big carriers in coming years, said Jamie Baker, an analyst with UBS Warburg.

94.   Regional airlines were hit especially hard.

95.   Relatively minor holdings, such as regional airlines originally set up by governments in former black homelands, would be sold off.

96.   Small regional airlines, charter services and flight schools were affected.

97.   Some airlines are paring costs by shifting routes to smaller regional airlines.

98.   That move was seen as a measure to assist ailing flag carrier Philippines Airlines, which Manila says is facing unfair competition from regional airlines.

99.   The airline was also planning to set up a subsidiary air cargo company with other regional airlines later this year.

100.   That would have been the best pay offered to any pilots in the regional airline industry, Comair management said.