United Airlines is considering opening a vast maintenance center here that would employ 30,000 workers.

For a brief period in the late 1990's, United made a spectacular success of the maintenance center.

It's a marina destination in the eastern Mediterranean and will be an important maintenance centre.

It also served a dual purpose as a maintenance center.

All four yards provide bus parking and three also act as maintenance centers.

One could be the control and maintenance center, or a whole string of them.

On May 4, it said it would abandon the maintenance center completely.

If executives approve further financing, American could roll out 800 of these at 20 maintenance centers before year's end.

The group then headed for the maintenance center "to see where the umbrellas were manufactured."

The company has its own maintenance center and also sells aircraft and spare parts.