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The airline was designated as the country's flag carrier in 1987.

On the one hand, the industry has been pushing away from government subsidies for national flag carriers.

Example: "Bill was the flag carrier of the movement to improve inner city education."

"No one thinks of car brands as being flag carriers," she said.

This was one third of what the major, established "flag carriers" were charging at the time.

Some experts said no flag carrier was better than a second-rate one.

If the losses become too great, "it may change people's minds as to whether every country should have a flag carrier," he said.

The national flag carrier does not produce a profit-and-loss statement.

He was the flag carrier for Mauritius in the opening ceremony.

Passengers flights are run by the national flag carrier and other domestic airlines.

Also, as a general rule, the flag carrier may not attempt to free any of their teammates from jail.

No points are gained by killing the flag carrier.

The carrier therefore became the flag carrier of the country.

But most foreign governments feared that more competition would undermine their flag carriers.

Best to just charge blindly into battle and draw fire away from the flag carrier.

Many of these smaller regional airlines were eventually bought by the larger flag carriers.

Singapore's flag carrier is sitting on almost $600 million in cash.

"Some years ago they had a hijacking attempt on their national flag carrier.

The airline can now be considered the unofficial flag carrier of Uruguay.

"How many times have you heard of a country allowing its flag carrier to go under, no matter how bad the service it provided?"

The ability of Member States to defend their flag carriers should not be reduced.

Airport slots are granted either by the national flag carrier or in consultation with it.

Villages ought to be flag carriers for this idea, with its emphasis on volunteering.

Lufthansa, the current German flag carrier airline, founded in 1953.

United States flag carriers have for years been forced to compete with subsidized foreign shippers.

There is no single national flag airline; passenger airlines in the United States have always been privately owned.

Mexico's two flag airlines are Mexicana and Aeroméxico, both formerly state-controlled.

THE European skies are notoriously lacking in competition, with a variety of national flag airlines dominating many routes and keeping prices high as a result.

In recent weeks alone, China froze all of its airplane orders and delayed some deliveries, while the flag airline of the Philippines went out of business.

Ltd. (or Green Flag Airlines) is an air transport services company based in Khartoum, Sudan, established in 1992.

"I think this is going to be a bad one," said Butch Stewart, chairman of Sandals Resorts, the largest hotel group in Jamaica, and chairman of Air Jamaica, the national flag airline.

Three multinational worldwide airline alliances have grown and developed their own aircraft liveries and corporate identity which encompass and transcend major carriers, mainline carriers, legacy carriers and flag airlines individual airline identities along with any ties to regional, geopolitical, national boundaries, and government heritages.