1.   Unprofitable flight routes have been axed as recession hits the aviation industry.

2.   Consumers going from the Bay Area to New York, for instance, have nine flight routes to consider, because each metropolitan area has three nearby airports.

3.   For many years, Maine, for example, lay underneath a common flight route to Europe, he said.

4.   He and his co-pilot reviewed takeoff procedures and a flight route with the control tower.

5.   The companies also map out flight routes, arrange for fuel and provide the permits that allow pilots to fly over and land in a particular country.

6.   The flight information they glean from the blinking computer screens will be used to arrange flight routes, determine plane crews and payloads and solve any problems that arise.

7.   The new service business needed a brand-new environment, Nardelli said, and Atlanta offered more convenient flight routes to international markets.

8.   The U.S. and Japan headed off a major confrontation over air rights by agreeing to expand cargo flight routes through both countries.

9.   Tim Pile, a regional spokesman for the FAA in Seattle, said his agency refuses to comment on any proposed flight routes.

10.   Previously, air ticket prices for each domestic flight route were fixed in Japan.