41.   Labor costs are what sets European airlines apart from the U.S. aviation industry and from other industries in Europe.

42.   Lacking full access to the swarms of passengers gathering at Heathrow, American carriers have been hobbled in their efforts to build European airline networks, Oran said.

43.   Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia, Iberia and some other European airlines have asked the European Union to pick up the costs of added security and insurance.

44.   Lufthansa executives argued that the government needed to surrender control of the airline so it could better compete in a deregulated European airline market.

45.   Murphy at Morgan Stanley said Alitalia was apparently seeking to follow the route taken by more successful European airlines like Lufthansa of Germany.

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47.   Not all European airlines are doomed to perpetual hemorrhaging.

48.   Now, state-owned Alitalia is being wooed by three European airlines.

49.   Other European airlines have also adopted the strategy as deregulation within the European Union brings new low-cost rivals onto short-haul routes.

50.   Other European airlines are also expected to post lower earnings for the quarter in coming days because of weaker profit on North Atlantic routes.