31.   Two major airlines, Northwest and United, are sidling toward tighter restrictions on what passengers can take aboard as other airlines watch attentively.

32.   Under the plan, airport-bound passengers would take a Long Island Rail Road train from Manhattan to Jamaica and transfer there to a smaller train.

33.   Under FAA regulations, passengers may take firearms in checked baggage as long as they are unloaded, declared to the airline, and in a suitable locked container.

34.   When a flight attendant, then the pilot, threatened to remove her prior to departure, the passenger finally took her seat.

35.   Passengers can also take trips to Asia, South America, even Africa on some lines.

36.   Passengers could then take New Jersey Transit trains that are already in service to Hoboken, where there are connections into New York City.

37.   Preliminary investigations have said the fire was caused by a small stove of the kind that passengers take on board to cook food in the low-cost compartments.

38.   Passengers could take such items in luggage they checked onto the plane, the company said.

39.   A Qantas airline captain has been suspended over allegations that he let passengers take the controls of jet planes during international flights, an Australian newspaper reported Saturday.

40.   Already, fewer passengers are taking to the high seas.