31.   Martens slashed costs, staff and air routes.

32.   National EU governments have gradually opened air routes with the U.S. to enable their national carriers to forge alliances with U.S. carriers.

33.   Noise concerns and whether the air routes affected communities beneath them came much later as a concern for the agency.

34.   Officials from both sides have said negotiations on the passenger flight issue may begin after formally signing an agreement expanding air cargo routes.

35.   Officials from both sides had said they may begin negotiations on the passenger flight issue after formally signing an agreement expanding air cargo routes.

36.   Pena lauded the agreement, saying increased competition and prospects for further liberalization of air routes across the Pacific are a boon to American consumers and businesses alike.

37.   Retired Air Force Commander Eitan Ben-Eliahu told Israel television that the knowledge of air routes and access to flights could show signs of domestic U.S. terrorism.

38.   Rows over air cargo routes and sales of U.S.-made photographic film are heating up.

39.   Texas lawmakers sharply criticized the Clinton administration Tuesday for negotiating an airline agreement that gives a foreign carrier access to a lucrative air route to the United Kingdom.

40.   The alliance comes a week after Japan and the U.S. agreed to expand airline access between the two countries, settling a dispute over air cargo routes.