International charters using wide-bodied jets of numerous airlines are periodically conducted.

About 76 percent of these flights are operated with wide-bodied jets.

The number of gates is expected to rise from 3 to 13, which would accommodate wide-bodied jumbo jets, by 2000.

The deal also was expected to include orders for less than 10 wide-bodied 747-400 jumbo jets.

The latter include such wide-bodied jets as the 747 and the DC-10.

Soviet manufacturers are developing a new wide-bodied jet, but it is not expected to be ready before 1995.

Yet the authorities have long refused to reshape its airport to take wide-bodied jets.

Both the MD-11 and the A340 are wide-bodied jets designed to carry about 300 passengers for long distances.

The project to lengthen the runway was completed in 1987 and enabled wide-bodied jets to use the airport, which further boosted tourism to the island.

For Ibiza the breakthrough came in the 1960s, with the introduction of wide-bodied jets and a significant surge in tourism.