31.   Airline officials said they would not discuss the fines, citing security considerations.

32.   Airline officials say beyond rights are essential to making overseas routes profitable.

33.   Airline officials say the five boxes were not properly packed for shipment because they lacked inner dividers to hold the devices upright.

34.   Airline officials say they have had little choice but to react to the dramatic declines in business and leisure travel.

35.   Airline officials then concluded that a malfunction in another passenger plane in late October was probably vandalism, too.

36.   Airline officials told her she could wait for her bags to come back off the plane, but it could take hours.

37.   Airline officials were full of nervous optimism on Thursday that they could operate without major delays.

38.   Airlines officials said that he had apparently moved from his assigned seat shortly before the explosion.

39.   Airline industry officials agree that passengers need a better way to get to and from the airport.

40.   Airline officials are encouraged.