21.   Manchester Airport director Alfred Testa Jr. said US Airways already had announced three nonstop flights a day from Manchester to Baltimore-Washington beginning in April.

22.   Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx said it will operate four flights a week to three Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, by early March.

23.   Now, there are six flights a day.

24.   On weekends, the frequency drops to four flights a day each way.

25.   Rather than hiring full-time workers at those airports to wait for one or two flights a day, airlines often pay a competitor to do their work.

26.   Smoking will be allowed, however, on some routes that have more than one flight a day.

27.   That compares to just two flights a week for JAL.

28.   That would result in more flights a day and help the carrier pare costs and slash fares.

29.   The departure cities are New York, where there are two outbound flights a night, plus Atlanta, Boston and Chicago.

30.   The demand could easily support seven flights a week between Miami and Havana, he said.