1.   A Senate hearing Wednesday on airline competition quickly became a discussion of airline security.

2.   A spokesman for the Bush transition team, Scott McClellan, would not discuss plans for promoting airline competition.

3.   Airline competition should improve as well, with more domestic flights in and out of Kennedy when the airport itself is more accessible.

4.   All of these airports benefit from direct flights and airline competition.

5.   But airline competition can increase almost overnight by the switching of planes from one route to another.

6.   But even the chain-smoking Crandall, who once likened airline competition to war, had to put his pants on one leg at a time.

7.   But many Canadians say that airline competition is inadequate.

8.   But some people say that the new administration will have difficulty avoiding the issue of airline competition, even if it wants to.

9.   Carty said that the issue of airline competition is moot in the case of TWA because the carrier is on its last legs.

10.   Congress has been holding hearings this year on airline competition, looking mainly at ways to protect new entrant carriers.