The carrier bought three aft-engined Tu-134s in late 1967.

The carriers don't buy product from Microsoft.

Several smaller youth-oriented carriers buy network capacity from the more established cellular companies.

So far, no American carrier has bought the plane and many experts anticipate that none will anytime soon.

Independent contractors called carriers buy copies of the newspaper at a discount and deliver them, using their personal vehicles.

It has plenty, even if no American or Japanese carriers have bought passenger versions.

Now foreign carriers can buy 49 percent of an American carrier but only 25 percent of its voting stock.

Analysts thought that a big domestic carrier could not buy Continental because of antitrust problems.

Given the state of the industry and antitrust factors, there is little chance that another carrier, either foreign or domestic, would buy it.

The carriers bought the planes for low prices and could lease them out for hefty profits.