Certainly the number of consumer complaints about airline advertising is low.

Of course, "fall" is not quite the type of word fliers want to see invoked in airline advertising.

"It's like airline advertising; you're stuck on a runway for six hours with nothing but peanuts and that's what people remember, not the beautiful skies."

The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether states can regulate airline advertising.

The department has also made efforts to see that the rules that apply to other airline advertising are carried out on the Internet.

In January it issued guidelines regulating the content of airline advertising.

But no Federal agency found fault with airline advertising.

The group reported last fall that airline advertising was deceptive and amounted to a bait-and-switch practice.

Over the next few months, two Federal courts are expected to rule on the power of states to act on airline advertising.

"The ads don't look like conventional airline advertising," he said.