The move, expected to save more than $100 million a year, is one of many by the beleaguered airline to try to return to profitability; it reported its last annual profit in 1988.

The commission clearly hopes that Europe's beleaguered airlines will prod their leaders to go along.

For it, the problem is less fear of bigotry than the difficulty of coaxing musicians to come and beleaguered airlines to provide free tickets.

The proposals could cost the beleaguered airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars, officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Estimates of billings on the account of the beleaguered airline, which will change agencies for the third time in five years, ranged from $45 million to $60 million.

The expected decision in Luxembourg Thursday offers beleaguered European airlines some hope.

USAir broke a yearlong deadlock with its pilots yesterday and reached an agreement that could help the financially beleaguered airline drastically cut costs.

America's beleaguered airlines continue to hemorrhage money at an alarming rate.

The beleaguered airline, based in St. Paul, has said it needs $900 million worth of concessions over three years from its unions and managers.

If consummated, a takeover of Kiwi by Pan American would combine two of the nation's most beleaguered airlines.