1.   Both airlines are owned by Seattle-based Alaska Air Group.

2.   Complicating the process is that the second-largest local creditor, Allied Bank, is owned by Tan, who also owns the airline.

3.   The commuter airline is owned by American Airlines, and company officials say that both operations use the same safety standards.

4.   United officials declined to say how much the airline is owned.

5.   British Airways, which owns the two airlines, wants to merge the companies.

6.   Jordan, which owns the airline, sent a passenger and cargo list to the U.N. sanctions committee for approval before the flight to Iraq, officials said.

7.   Jordan, which owns the airline, received advance approval for the first flight from the U.N. sanctions committee, officials said.

8.   The airline is owned by the government of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

9.   The airline is half owned by private interests and half by the three countries it represents, with the flight hub in Copenhagen, Denmark.

10.   The airline is owned by the Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.