1.   European airlines are resisting EC moves to improve their environmental standards.

2.   Although global travel regulations still require a paper ticket on transcontinental flights, several European airlines are trying their own variations on the ticketless theme.

3.   American carriers are free to fly on within Europe, but European airlines cannot pick up passengers to fly within America.

4.   Analysts called the agreement a necessary victory at a time when European airlines are struggling to cut costs in the face of growing international competition and falling air fares.

5.   Analysts last week welcomed the conclusion of an agreement, as European airlines struggle to cut costs in the face of growing international competition and falling air fares.

6.   Analysts called the agreement a necessary victory, as European airlines struggle to cut costs in the face of growing international competition and falling air fares.

7.   And with growing European airlines increasingly thirsty for private capital, recruiting tough American managers signals to international investors that they mean business.

8.   And unlike the American airline industry, the European airline industry is not unanimous in support for government assistance.

9.   Another would be turning the European airline into a discount carrier, similar to some regional airlines in the U.S.

10.   As European airlines turn onto a more profitable flight path, pilots are fighting cost-cutting efforts to trim their relatively high salaries.