1.   Also, if you are required to buy an extra seat, make certain gate agents and flight attendants understand the situation.

2.   Although the stock number on each stolen ticket has been reported, gate agents are going to check the blacklist only if they are suspicious.

3.   American Airlines said its gate agent showed the courier a list of items that cannot be carried on board and asked if he had any of them.

4.   As the delays mounted, she asked the gate agent if she was going to make the second flight, and he told her not to worry.

5.   Beginning Monday, USAir gate agents will specifically tell the captain of each flight exactly how much fuel is onboard the aircraft.

6.   Boim and other security experts singled out the three perfunctory questions about luggage that gate agents ask all departing passengers as an example of lax security.

7.   A gate agent in Boston had not been quite so strict.

8.   A US Airways gate agent reportedly told him he was detained because he fit a profile designed to increase security at airports.

9.   AirTran vows to maintain its schedule, in part by training gate agents as substitute attendants and using fewer attendants than normal if necessary.

10.   Airline officials say they jam overhead bins, slow boarding and deplaning and fray tempers as gate agents increasingly demand that bags be checked.