1.   An FAA spokeswoman, Diane Spitaliere, said inspectors had used elements of the new audit technique to find problems at some very small airlines.

2.   Analysts say Mexicana has been crippled by a brutal fare competition with small regional airlines that have been formed since the industry was deregulated two years ago.

3.   Another small airline, Kiwi, went bankrupt recently.

4.   Big airlines will spread extra costs over all their customers, she said, while small airlines do not have a huge customer base to do that with.

5.   A small Pennsylvania airline is offering free round-trip seats to Elvis impersonators.

6.   All three airlines have been under pressure to slash prices to compete with larger foreign airlines as well as with small Japanese airlines offering cut-rate domestic flights.

7.   But security experts note that El Al is a small airline and say such a procedure is prohibitively expensive for most carriers.

8.   But the company must still settle the dispute with the pilots over its acquisition of Reno Air, a small airline in the West.

9.   Experts say that, especially for small airlines, contracting out work can be safer.

10.   Governments from Prague to Kingston are privatizing national carriers, loosening the protective walls around them and allowing small airlines to spring up.