21.   Airlines are offering more choices and higher-grade wines and snacks for first-class passengers, who fly most often and contribute most heavily to profits.

22.   Airlines often offer deals to new destinations or when they are trying to get fliers to associate their name with a destination.

23.   Airlines are offering business-class travel that includes cushy sleep-over seats, in-air phones and fax machines.

24.   Airlines were offering double and triple miles to entice new customers, and as a baseball reporter, I had earned a bushel of miles that summer.

25.   Busloads of Canadians came from Ontario and New Brunswick, while airlines offered cut-rate tickets flying in people from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

26.   But Jenkins predicted that some airlines would soon offer free seats to babies on off-peak flights, as a marketing tool.

27.   But today, some airlines are offering a menu of films to satisfy every taste.

28.   DirecTV spokesman Bob Marsocci said the company late last year began focusing on ways to reward loyal customers, much as airlines offer special perks to frequent fliers.

29.   Even Royal Jordanian airlines is offering reasonably priced packages from New York that combine sites in both lands.

30.   Every week, these airlines offer many international and domestic sale fares, mostly last-minute deals for quick getaways.