31.   But the plans are running into fierce opposition from ranchers, environmentalists, commercial airlines and people settling in fast-growing metropolitan centers, especially out West.

32.   CAP targets Southern companies in cities without commercial airline service.

33.   Charter jet operators were back up in the air several days before the commercial airlines.

34.   China Southern Airlines, based in Hong Kong, provides commercial airline services in China, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world.

35.   Chuck McNeil, a retired commercial airline pilot from Palm Desert, Calif., figures he has sailed in the event about seven times.

36.   Commercial airline Capt. Don Cornwall, chairman of airworthiness and performance for the Air Line Pilots Association, acknowledged that his group also had initial concerns.

37.   Commercial airlines enforce the ban without hesitation, but in the wireless communications industry the issue is hotly debated.

38.   Commercial airline pilots may face mandatory retirement, but working dogs are pulled from duty only when they get rusty, hurt or sick.

39.   Commercial airlines, like American and USAir, appear to be making a shift toward fleet simplification.

40.   Commercial Italian airlines will suspend operations at nearby Fiumicino Airport during the meeting.