1.   This suggests that firms may have formally agreed to share out capacity growth, but then invested to increase their share.

2.   Analysts and company officials credited relatively strong passenger demand for air travel, tight limits on capacity growth, and higher average fares.

3.   AirTran today posted a loss for the fourth quarter, but it was better than analysts expected and the airline has resumed positive traffic and capacity growth.

4.   Capacity growth is outpacing demand in many industries and putting downward pressure on profit margins, while helping constrain inflation, Katz said.

5.   Even so, the new orders are prompting many industry analysts on Wall Street to re-evaluate their estimates of capacity growth.

6.   Fuel costs are a big factor, and industry capacity growth is forcing more low-ball pricing to fill seats, also hurting profits.

7.   Japan also wants to even out what it says is an imbalance on flights between the United States and Japan, perhaps by controlling capacity growth.

8.   Most big airlines have been more cautious about capacity growth in recent years.

9.   Most of the capacity growth will go to additional flights on existing routes, but an undisclosed destination will be added this fall, executives said.

10.   The capacity growth, he said, suggests that airline executives are losing some sense of self-discipline.