1.   Still, Shugrue had the support of Lifland, who continued to release tens of millions of dollars from an escrow fund to keep the airline flying.

2.   AccessAir has shut down, just two weeks before it was to present a reorganization plan to keep the regional airline flying.

3.   Officials have been anxious to keep the airline flying.

4.   One potentially big bottleneck was avoided when President Bush announced he would stop a threatened strike by American Airlines flight attendants, keeping the airline flying.