11.   A proposed bailout comes at time when Europe is reassessing the need for propping up money-losing national airlines.

12.   Afghan guerrillas shot down four civilian planes, three of them from the national Bakhtar airline.

13.   Airports, the national airline, a diamond mine, a parcel delivery service and a forestry company are all due to go under the hammer.

14.   Air Zaire, the national airline, once operated four jets, but one was repossessed by Belgium and another by Israel for nonpayment of debts.

15.   Both countries have national airlines with their own regional routes, yet there are no flights between them.

16.   Christian Blanc, the chairman of Air France, announced the merger of the French national airline with its Air France Europe unit, France Info reported.

17.   Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the German national airline, said pretax profit will be around the forecast it made at its annual shareholders meeting in July.

18.   Eventually he lost his job as a counter clerk at the national airline, Swissair.

19.   Every flight of the national airline, Pakistan International Airlines, begins with a recorded prayer invoking the name of Mohammed.

20.   His father, Fareed Badri, is a retired senior executive with the Saudi national airline who carried a diplomatic passport.