81.   The government argues that by dominating major metropolitan airports like Dallas, major carriers like American have a monopoly.

82.   The Malaysian rebuff is painful for Airbus because the carrier already has five Airbus jets on order, with options to purchase six more.

83.   The other major change in the new draft is that all carriers will have to grant access to their networks.

84.   The requirement resembles the access that long-distance carriers have into wire networks owned by regional telephone companies, although it stops short of allowing direct linkups to customers.

85.   The Swiss carrier also has had to overcome the fact that Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, which makes competing in Europe more difficult.

86.   The two carriers have different personalities.

87.   The two carriers have complementary routes and mostly non-union work forces outside of pilots.

88.   The two carriers have little overlap, except in the South Pacific.

89.   The two over-the-air carriers have to worry about preempting prime-time scheduling and are almost precluded from interrupting daytime programming.

90.   The World Trade Organization agreement makes such a global strategy possible by raising the level of investment that foreign carriers can have in local companies.