31.   Low-cost carriers will buy grounded planes and hire displaced airline workers.

32.   Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, a Missouri Democrat, proposed legislation to provide assistance to laid-off airline industry workers.

33.   Mineta is to brief congressional leaders before the president flies to Chicago on Thursday to address airline workers there.

34.   Nearly two years later, federal agents cracked a ring of airline workers using PanAm flights from Brazil to bring in suitcases filled with cocaine.

35.   Now, however, the relationship between airline workers and passengers has changed.

36.   One airline worker trying to deal with the crowd was asked about that.

37.   President Bush plans to travel to Chicago on Thursday to thank airline workers, and some are hoping he will offer them some sort of assistance.

38.   Representatives of the baggage handlers union and other groups said the arrests do not reflect most airline ramp workers.

39.   Several angry Democrats were pushing to include a measure to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance to the laid-off airline workers.

40.   Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., the sole dissenter in the final Senate vote, said the bill should have included provisions to help airline workers directly.