1.   BellSouth plans to add interactive functions in the next generation of the technology, and other carriers will no doubt do the same.

2.   But industry analysts predicted that most carriers would do so.

3.   Carriers do that.

4.   Carriers have done nickel-and-dime cost-cutting, removing hot towels and food service, but have yet to address much more serious costs, like labor inefficiencies.

5.   Delta, as some other carriers already have done, is ditching the old first-class and business-class layout in favor of a single premium class cabin.

6.   Even the big carriers have been doing so for international flights, he added.

7.   For now, no American carriers are doing so.

8.   If loads on a route get full, instead of reducing demand by raising prices as other carriers typically do, Southwest adds more flights, Kelleher said.

9.   If traveler has other medical coverage, Travelsafe picks up whatever the primary carrier does not.

10.   Japanese carriers cannot do that in the United States.