The organization facilitates dealings between airlines and American travel agencies.

The increasing trend toward links between international airlines is also making many officials in Washington nervous.

And it has significantly changed the nature of competition between airlines.

The lobbying battle is essentially shaping up as a fight between older airlines and everyone else.

Throughout the industry, there is a wide variety of relationships between airlines and their commuter arms.

There are also code sharing agreements between airlines and rail lines.

It has also not been possible as yet to agree on a common position between safety experts, aircraft manufacturers, airlines and market regulators.

The continuous building of cartels between various national airlines is a further example.

The second point I would like to make is that of including safety as a feature of the competition between airlines.

I think it is quite unacceptable to employ such methods in competition between airlines.