1.   Consider what happened when New Zealand simply allowed one airline to compete with its state-owned line.

2.   Bautista said the new airlines competed with Philippine Airlines on profitable routes, like flights to the resort island of Cebu.

3.   Birds gotta fly, airlines gotta compete, Petzinger seems to say.

4.   Airlines compete not only on quantity of seats, but also on quality.

5.   Domestic airlines cannot compete against foreign carriers with one hand tied behind their backs.

6.   Hub airports dominated by a single airline have significantly higher fares than airports where several airlines compete, testified Steven Morrison, an economics professor at Northeastern University.

7.   Swissair and Sabena last month submitted a revised plan to the European Commission to meet demands that other airlines can also compete on routes between Belgium and Switzerland.

8.   The airlines compete both in the air and on the ground to woo these lucrative customers.

9.   The airlines compete head-to-head on many transatlantic routes.

10.   The Americans have also been rumbling about safety standards in Nigeria, where several private-sector airlines compete with state-owned Nigeria Airways.