So the airlines are lobbying hard.

In the middle 1960s the airline and other transportation industries lobbied for uniformity of Daylight dates in the United States.

But Chinese airlines are already looking into legal actions against the EU and lobbying for countermeasures by the Chinese government.

The big airlines are lobbying Congress for what is effectively another bailout, their third plea for assistance since the September 2001 attacks.

Now, airlines and airports are vigorously lobbying the government to scale back or modify many of the new safeguards.

The big airlines are lobbying to block or delay those rules.

Separately, the airline has been lobbying Congress for special relief from the pension law.

Some of the delayed contributions are now starting to come due, and the airline has been lobbying Congress to give it still more time.

The big airlines - particularly United and Northwest - have lobbied hard for such relief.

Big airlines have been lobbying hard against the Senate's tax plan, which they say would raise fares substantially.