71.   She designed new timetables for the flights, assigned the new aircraft to the busiest routes and widened the administrative base of the company to cope with growth.

72.   Since then, airlines have focused more on reducing overhead costs, weighing decisions to buy new aircraft more carefully than ever before.

73.   Steenland said each would make its own decisions about where to fly, capacity, schedules, new aircraft and pricing.

74.   South Korea and China are also squabbling over which country will get the new aircraft plant.

75.   Stock buybacks in the airline industry are rare because airlines need to spend so much of their cash on new aircraft.

76.   Stevens proposed spending a portion of that money to buy new aircraft.

77.   That could erode profits at airlines, curtailing their appetite for new aircraft.

78.   That it happened at Comair is appropriate because the airline was one of the first to deploy the new aircraft, becoming an industry Cinderella story.

79.   That business is booming right now as Boeing books billions of dollars of orders for new aircraft.

80.   That sequence of events may appear to be coming to pass, though many analysts believe that strong demand for new aircraft will continue.