51.   The bottom line for the industry and its customers, experts say, will be fewer accidents, fewer flight delays and lower costs.

52.   The delays were so extensive, in fact, that they accounted for fully a quarter of all the flight delays in the country in September.

53.   The Federal Aviation Administration says its new Chicago traffic control computer should reduce flight delays throughout the Midwest.

54.   The last straw for Erickson was when he was late to an NFL players union meeting in Washington because of an America West flight delay.

55.   The new report also is expected to be critical following a stressful winter with record flight delays and cancellations.

56.   The plan subjects airlines to fines if they fail to notify passengers of flight delays as soon as possible.

57.   The prosecutor, Leslie Mann, said the flight delay had nothing to do with the incident.

58.   The runway expansion would reduce the existing flight delays, accommodate larger aircraft and the projected increase in passenger and cargo traffic, and reduce noise, Sunshine said.

59.   The storm caused several flight delays, as well as cancellations of ferry service from the central Hong Kong to outlying islands.

60.   The tests come as United Airlines is beset with flight delays and cancellations because of labor troubles, bad weather and crowded skies.