Aviation Daily reported that International Lease's president, Steven Udvar-Hazy, had confirmed the order.

At Dulles, one of the nation's fastest-growing airports, United would fly about 62 percent of all passengers, according to 1999 airline traffic data published by Aviation Daily, an industry newsletter.

Last week, Aviation Daily, an industry publication, reported that T.W.A., supported by its unions and creditors, had undertaken a lobbying effort to win the pension corporation's blessing of the settlement.

It began turning a profit in March, after only 10 months in the air, becoming one of the fastest new airlines in history to make money, according to Aviation Daily, a trade publication.

It handled 6.83 million passengers in the 12 months to Oct. 30, compared with 6.74 million for American, according to Aviation Daily, a trade publication.

B. Ben Baldanza, the top-ranking marketing executive at US Airways, is set to leave the troubled carrier to join Spirit Airlines, the trade publication Aviation Daily reported last night.

US Airways would not comment directly on the move, which Aviation Daily said could be announced as early as today.

Newark Off the Charts Perhaps more telling is a recent ranking by Aviation Daily of the airports in the country with the most delays.

Alaska Airlines has grown over its 68-year history from a single three-passenger plane chugging across the tundra to the nation's 10th-biggest carrier, as ranked by Aviation Daily, which closely monitors the industry.

An article this morning in Aviation Daily said the board had voted unanimously to approve it.