11.   Most of the jobs will be in Switzerland, as the company integrates its Balair charter flight business with the main Swissair operation.

12.   Nations Air is halting scheduled service and laying off a third of its staff to go into the charter business, McDonald said.

13.   Nyhus is one of many Westport skippers who have turned to whale-watching to supplement dwindling income from the troubled salmon charter business.

14.   Sensing an opportunity, several big companies have decided in recent months to invest in charter businesses.

15.   The charter business, he said, evolved when members began flying to Lagos, Nigeria, on missionary work.

16.   The deal will give their international air charter business, Rifton Enterprises, a home base a half-hour from home.

17.   The ValuJet crash did not affect its charter business, though military charter business, always unpredictable, is off this year.

18.   The yacht charter business is unregulated.

19.   Those are among the ways the company is out to shake up the charter business, UPS officials said.

20.   Thomason held a one-third interest in an aviation consulting firm, but it was never shown that he had a personal financial stake in the charter business.