However, many airlines failed fully to comply with the regulations.

By April 2005, the airline had failed to launch, and investors withdrew funding, leading the company to close down.

And the numbers make it more likely that some bailed-out airlines will still fail, particularly if the economy does not recover soon.

Low-fare airlines have failed in the past, but not necessarily because of their fare structure.

Governments and airlines had failed to learn lessons from the incident.

How did Midway manage to pull through when many other airlines failed?

But the talks collapsed when the airlines failed to agree on which American carrier would be their partner.

Otherwise, the report said, Russian airlines will soon fail to meet international standards.

However, the airline failed to make money on the DC-6s, mostly because of the high operating costs, and sold them after a year.

American has also followed the unusual policy of keeping these higher fares in effect even as leading airlines have often failed to match them.