The airlines will issue a paper ticket if requested, but charge $10 for it.

A. Ask the airline or a travel agent to issue a boarding pass with a seat assignment.

The airline issued clear, repeated warnings that without relief, its pension fund was sure to fail.

Several Latin American airlines and governments have issued complaints against their foreign competitors.

United and union spokesmen said the airline does not often issue such an order.

But after a meeting today in the Netherlands, the airlines issued a statement saying they had terminated their talks.

The airline later issued the following statement on its website:

Confusion was further caused by the fact that the aviation authorities and airlines issued contradictory information.

A spokesman for Continental said that it, too, had seen some softening, particularly in business travel, but the airline has not issued a formal warning.

Last year, the airlines issued a "customer service commitment" to stave off corrective legislation, but with the report today came new calls for such laws.