21.   Aquino said the airline and the union are continuing talks on a memorandum of agreement and dismissed the fears of mass layoffs as speculation.

22.   Cathay Pacific Airways canceled more than a dozen flights Saturday after growing numbers of pilots facing paycuts and layoff threats called in sick to work, the airline said.

23.   Dutch airline KLM is considering having two of its Netherlands-South America flights make their Caribbean stopovers in Bonaire instead of Curacao, the airline said Thursday.

24.   It said the airline, telecommunications and financial services businesses had been hardest hit.

25.   Kincaid said the airline and mechanics had been negotiating since October.

26.   Shaddia Habbal of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said airline and hotel reservations are already filling.

27.   She said many airlines and tour operators from Asia and Australia had reduced their prices to attract more foreign tourists to their countries.

28.   Tarom general manager Nicolae Brutaru said the airline and Otopeni International Airport outside Bucharest had received several bomb threats over the past two weeks.

29.   That could mean the second recorder was damaged, the airline said in Seoul, South Korea.

30.   The French group said the airline, the manufacturer of the aircraft and the FAA were all to blame in varying degrees for the mechanical malfunction.