21. Growth in air travel is fuelling the boom. 22. American Express has added gourmet foods and other merchandise to its Membership Miles program that also includes air travel, hotel stays and car rentals.... 23. American corporations already have cut back sharply their spending on everything from air travel to computers. 24. American Express Co. and Delta Air Lines are selling a credit card that gives users one mile of air travel for every dollar charged. 25. American, a unit of AMR Corp., controls roughly half of the market for air travel between the United States and the Caribbean. 26. And for that matter, they argue, air travel is still safer than traveling by car. 27. And all the fatigue and travails of predawn air travel were worth it. 28. Analysts and company officials credited relatively strong passenger demand for air travel, tight limits on capacity growth, and higher average fares. 29. Analysts said that the airplane crash may mean another decline in air travel and, therefore, a decline in fuel consumption. 30. And as air travel changed around it, the terminal quickly became a dazzling architectural relic in southern Queens. |