In recent years the regional airlines are coming under intense scrutiny both from the public and the media.
True, eight airlines have come to dominate the industry.
"Slowly, the airlines are coming around, but they've been dragging their feet on this because of the image they think it projects," she said yesterday.
The airline has come under heavy criticism in the past for its poor treatment of disabled passengers.
The Internet, the airlines have come to believe, offers a rare opportunity to lower costs and increase revenue.
But the airlines recently came forward with some alternative suggestions, which the government adopted yesterday.
But the airline has come under scrutiny as a result of its five fatal accidents since 1989.
These airlines all came to participate in the Qualiflyer program.
But nearly every airline in the world came into Kennedy, and the clerks there saw thousands per day.
Other airlines come and go in the program as the perception for need changes.