1.   A further complicating issue is how the airlines might be compensated for surrendering those slots to competitors.

2.   But compensating airlines for future losses because of an economic slowdown is an immensely complicated issue that Congress should consider carefully before rushing headlong into a bailout package.

3.   But he said that airlines should be compensated for the grounding of all flights after the attacks.

4.   Fitzgerald said he voted against the airline bailout because it compensated airlines too much, demanded too little in return and ignored laid-off workers.

5.   Budget airline Ryanair said Thursday it had written to Transport Minister Stephen Byers asking him to compensate airlines for delays caused by the air traffic service.

6.   But Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm said the finance ministers were not ready to go beyond allowing governments to compensate airlines for four days.

7.   But in its report, the office cautioned that using a market-share formula might fail to adequately compensate some airlines for their losses while overcompensating others.

8.   It is allowing governments to compensate airlines for four days of business they lost when the United States closed its airspace after the attacks.

9.   Last week, she offered to let governments compensate airlines for losses incurred during the four days when all flights to the United States were grounded after the attacks.