31.   CarrierPoint verifies that the carriers have a satisfactory rating with the U.S. Department of Transportation, that they are solvent and that the insurance is current.

32.   Carriers have four years to phase in the retirement program.

33.   Currently, the Atlanta-based carrier has partnerships with European airlines to serve Egypt, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Gambia and Guinea.

34.   Currently, the carrier has an all-Boeing fleet.

35.   Does that carrier have a club in your home airport?

36.   Delta spokesman Bill Berry said the flights are selling well but added the carrier has no plans to add more in light of the uncertain economic outlook.

37.   Established carriers have trimmed routes and staff to stem losses, or in the case of Swissair, averted collapse through a government-led bailout.

38.   Every wireless carrier has a designated chunk of the radio spectrum, which it divides into cells.

39.   Even in the early days of aviation, the big carriers had to worry about pesky upstarts who offered the same service at lower prices.

40.   Federal officials said on Saturday that the Justice Department would scrutinize the deal to insure that other American long-distance carriers had equal access to the British market.