71.   Delta owns regional carrier Comair, whose pilots have been on strike for nearly three weeks.

72.   GAC is one of the few profitable regional carriers primarily because of a lack of big-name competition in this part of the hemisphere.

73.   Gill Airways, a regional carrier based in the northeastern city of Newcastle upon Tyne, ceased operations Thursday after its bankers withdrew funding.

74.   He said Caribbean nations should work to strengthen regional carriers, which have had trouble competing against U.S. giants such as American.

75.   In Hong Kong and elsewhere, regional carriers said they were awaiting permission from U.S. aviation authorities to resume flights to North America.

76.   In July, NTT will turn itself into a holding company and split its business operations into two regional carriers and a long-distance carrier.

77.   It has also enhanced cooperation with Dutch carrier Transavia and the regional carrier KLM Cityhopper.

78.   It is pulling out of France altogether, after building up stakes in several regional carriers.

79.   Krasnoyarsk Airlines is one of the many regional carriers that emerged when Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline company, was broken up.

80.   Last week, United agreed to sell three regional carriers owned by US Airways to Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings Inc. after the merger is completed.